Volume I Foundational Issues: Volume I: Foundational Issues

Published by De Gruyter 2005

Volume I Foundational Issues

Edited by: Markus Werning , Edouard Machery and Gerhard Schurz

Part of the multi-volume work The Compositionality of Meaning and Content

Volume 1 in the series Linguistics & Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110323627

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Representational systems such as language, mind and perhaps even the brain exhibit a structure that is often assumed to be compositional. That is, the semantic value of a complex representation is determined by the semantic value of their parts and the way they are put together. Dating back to the late 19th century, the principle of compositionality has regained wide attention recently. Since the principle has been dealt with very differently across disciplines, the aim of the two volumes is to bring together the diverging approaches. They assemble a collection of original papers that cover the topic of compositionality from virtually all perspectives of interest in the contemporary debate. The well-chosen international list of authors includes psychologists, neuroscientists, computer scientists, linguists, and philosophers.

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Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Is Compositionality an A Priori Principle? Daniel Cohnitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Fodor’s Inexplicitness Argument Reinaldo Elugardo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Compositionality Inductively, Co-inductively and Contextually Tim Fernando Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Confirmation and Compositionality Ken Gemes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Levels of Perceptual Content and Visual Images. Conceptual, Compositional, or Not? Verena Gottschling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Recognitional Concepts and Conceptual Combination Pierre Jacob Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
How Similarities Compose Hannes Leitgeb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
The Structure of Thoughts Menno Lievers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Intensional Epistemic Wholes: A Study in the Ontology of Collectivity Alda Mari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Impossible Primitives Jaume Mateu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Is Compositionality an Empirical Matter? Jaroslav Peregrin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
The Compositionality of Concepts and Peirce’s Pragmatic Logic Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Semantic Holism and (Non-)Compositionality in Scientific Theories Gerhard Schurz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Right and Wrong Reasons for Compositionality Markus Werning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 308
Keywords: Linguistik; Philosophie; Semantik

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110323627

Hardcover

Published: August 15, 2005
ISBN: 9783110323061