Language, Logic, and Concepts: Essays in Memory of John Macnamara

Jackendoff, Ray; Bloom, Paul & Wynn, Karen; editors:

Published by MIT Press (1999), Cambridge [MA], 1999

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orig. cloth Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper. Textual tables. 23x15cm, xxviii,470 pp Contains 17 papers. Includes: R. Kearney: "Language and Nationalism"; A. Gupta: "Meaning and Misconceptions"; M.Mikkai: "On Structuralism in Mathematics"; R. Jackendoff: "The Natural Logic of Rights and Obligations";S. McCall: "Deliberation Reasons and Explanations"; D.R. Olson: "Truth and Its Negation: Mcnamara's Analysis of the Place of Logic in a Cognitive Psychology"; S. Prasada: "Names of Things and Stuff: An Aristotelian Perspective"; S. Davis: "The Unity of Science and the Distinction among Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics"; L.M.P. McPherson: "Scientific Theories That Unconceal Being: Intentions and Conceptions in Their Genesis"; S. Pinker & A. Prince: "The Nature of Human Concepts: Evidence from an Unusual Source"; M. Gopnik: "Some Evidence for Impaired Grammars"; P. Bloom: "The Role of Semantics in Solving the Bootstrapping Problem"; S. Carey & F. Xu: "Sortals and Kinds: An Appreciation of John Macnamara"; D.G.Hall: "Semantics and the Acquisition of Proper Names"; Y. Oshima-Takane: " The Learning of First and Second Person Pronouns in English"; F.W. Lawvere: "Kinship and Mathematical Categories"; M.L.P. Reyes; J. Macnamara;G.E. Reyes & H. Zolfaghari: "Count Nouns, Mass Nouns, and Their Transformations: A Unified Category-Theoretic Semantics". Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language, Logic, and Concepts: Essays in Memory of John Macnamara
• Publisher: MIT Press (1999), Cambridge [MA]
• Publication Date: 1999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included