The Compositionality of Meaning and Content. / Volume I, : Foundational Issues / / ed. by Markus Werning, Edouard Machery, Gerhard Schurz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Cohnitz, Daniel,; Elugardo, Reinaldo,; Fernando, Tim,; Gemes, Ken,; Gottschling, Verena,; Jacob, Pierre,; Leitgeb, Hannes,; Lievers, Menno,; Mari, Alda,; Mateu, Jaume,; Peregrin, Jaroslav,; Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko,; Schurz, Gerhard,; Werning, Markus,
• HerausgeberIn: Machery, Edouard,; Schurz, Gerhard,; Werning, Markus,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistics & Philosophy , 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)

Representational systems such as language, mind and perhaps even the brain exhibit a structure that is often assumed to be compositional. That is, the semantic value of a complex representation is determined by the semantic value of their parts and the way they are put together. Dating back to the l...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Is Compositionality an A Priori Principle?
• Fodor’s Inexplicitness Argument
• Compositionality Inductively, Co-inductively and Contextually
• Confirmation and Compositionality
• Levels of Perceptual Content and Visual Images. Conceptual, Compositional, or Not?
• Recognitional Concepts and Conceptual Combination
• How Similarities Compose
• The Structure of Thoughts
• Intensional Epistemic Wholes: A Study in the Ontology of Collectivity
• Impossible Primitives
• Is Compositionality an Empirical Matter?
• The Compositionality of Concepts and Peirce’s Pragmatic Logic
• Semantic Holism and (Non-)Compositionality in Scientific Theories
• Right and Wrong Reasons for Compositionality