Language, logic, and concepts : essays in memory of John Macnamara / edited by Ray Jackendoff, Paul Bloom, and Karen Wynn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Macnamara, John Theodore.

Jackendoff, Ray, 1945-

Bloom, Paul, 1963-

Wynn, Karen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive psychology.

Psycholinguistics.

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 470 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This wide-ranging collection of essays is inspired by the memory of the cognitive psychologist John Macnamara, whose influential contributions to language and concept acquisition have provided the basis for numerous research programs. The areas covered by the essays include the foundations of language and thought, congnitive and linguistic development, and mathematical approaches to cognition.

Contents:

Introduction / Ray Jackendoff, Paul Bloom and Karen Wynn

Publications of John Macnamara

Ch. 1. Language and Nationalism / Richard Kearney

Ch. 2. Meaning and Misconceptions / Anil Gupta

Ch. 3. On Structuralism in Mathematics / Michael Makkai

Ch. 4. The Natural Logic of Rights and Obligations / Ray Jackendoff

Ch. 5. Deliberation Reasons and Explanation Reasons / Storrs McCall

Ch. 6. Truth and Its Negation: Macnamara's Analysis of the Place of Logic in a Cognitive Psychology / David R. Olson

Ch. 7. Names of Things and Stuff: An Aristotelian Perspective / Sandeep Prasada

Ch. 8. The Unity of Science and the Distinction among Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics / Steven Davis

Ch. 9. Scientific Theories That Unconceal Being: Intentions and Conceptions in Their Genesis / Leslie Margaret Perrin McPherson

Ch. 10. The Nature of Human Concepts: Evidence from an Unusual Source / Steven Pinker and Alan Prince.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-27611-9

0-585-33701-2

OCLC:

45844104