LOT 2

Clarendon Press

2008

239 p.

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

9780191563478

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

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...

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