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

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999], ©1999.
Description
xxvii, 470 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Notes
"A Bradford book."
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 --
  • Ch. 11. Some Evidence for Impaired Grammars / Myrna Gopnik
  • Ch. 12. The Role of Semantics in Solving the Bootstrapping Problem / Paul Bloom
  • Ch. 13. Sortals and Kinds: An Appreciation of John Macnamara / Susan Carey and Fei Xu
  • Ch. 14. Semantics and the Acquisition of Proper Names / D. Geoffrey Hall
  • Ch. 15. The Learning of First and Second Person Pronouns in English / Yuriko Oshima-Takane
  • Ch. 16. Kinship and Mathematical Categories / F. William Lawvere
  • Ch. 17. Count Nouns, Mass Nouns, and Their Transformations: A Unified Category-Theoretic Semantics / Marie La Palme Reyes, John Macnamara and Gonzalo E. Reyes / [et al.].
ISBN
0262100789 (alk. paper)
LCCN
98047084
OCLC
40163479
RCP
C - S
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