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LOT 2 : The language of thought revisited / Jerry A. Fodor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fodor, Jerry A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy of mind.
- Thought and thinking--Philosophy.
- Thought and thinking.
- Cognition.
- Psycholinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- LOT two
- Language of thought 2
- Language of thought revisited
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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...
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Concepts
- Introduction
- Concept pragmatism: declined and fell
- LOT meets Frege's problem (among others)
- Locality
- pt. 2. Minds
- Nativism
- Preconceptual representation
- The metaphysics of reference.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-225 ) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-161532-3
- 0-19-958801-5
- 1-281-82581-6
- 9786611825812
- 0-19-156347-1
- OCLC:
- 437093824
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