The compositionality papers /

Fodor, Jerry A.

The compositionality papers / Jerry Fodor and Ernest Lepore. - Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, c2002. - vi, 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Rev. papers, previously published in various sources, 1991-2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p.[201]-205) and indexes.

Why meaning (probably) isn't conceptual role -- The pet fish and the red herring : why concepts still can't be prototypes -- Why compositionality won't go away : reflections on Horwich's "deflationary" theory -- What can't be valued can't be valued, and it can't be supervalued either -- The emptiness of the lexicon : reflections on Pustejovsky -- Impossible words? -- Brandom's burdens : compositionality and inferentialism -- Paul Churchland and state space semantics -- All at sea in semantic space : Churchland on meaning similarity.

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Language and languages--Philosophy.

P107 / .F63 2002

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