Minds without Meanings
An Essay on the Content of Concepts
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- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
2 September 2016
Summary
Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts’ sole semantic property.In cognitive science, conceptual content is frequently understood as the “meaning” of a mental representation. This position raises largely empirical questions about what concepts are, what form they take in mental processes, and how they connect to the world they are about. In Minds without Meaning, Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn review some of the proposals pu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262529815 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262529815 |
| Author: | Jerry A. Fodor, Zenon W. Pylyshyn |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 2 September 2016 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Minds without Meanings |
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About The Author
Jerry A. Fodor
Jerry A. Fodor is State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way- The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology (MIT Press) and other books.Zenon W. Pylyshyn is Board of Governors Professor of Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He is the author of Things and Places- How the Mind Connects with the World (MIT Press) and other books.
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