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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453213303321

Autore

Fodor Jerry A

Titolo

LOT 2 [[electronic resource] ] : The language of thought revisited / / Jerry A. Fodor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-19-958801-5

1-281-82581-6

9786611825812

0-19-156347-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FodorJerry A

Disciplina

153.4

401.9

Soggetti

Cognition

Psycholinguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-225 ) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; A Note on Notation; PART I: CONCEPTS; 1. Introduction; 2. Concept Pragmatism: Declined and Fell; 3. LOT Meets Frege's Problem (Among Others); 4. Locality; PART II: MINDS; 5. Nativism; 6. Preconceptual Representation; 7. The Metaphysics of Reference; References; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Jerry A. Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis, the idea that thinking is couched in a symbolic system realized in the brain; since the 1970's this has been at the centre of debate about how the mind works. No one who studies the mind can ignore Fodor's views, expressed in his coruscating and provocative style. - ;Jerry A. Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis, which has since the 1970's been at the centre of interdisciplinary debate about how the mind works. Fodor defends and extends the groundbreaking idea that...