Meaning, Creativity, and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind: 79 (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes) - Hardcover

Moravcsik, Julius M.

 
9781575861272: Meaning, Creativity, and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind: 79 (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes)
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ISBN 10: 1575861275 ISBN 13: 9781575861272
Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1998

Synopsis

This volume criticises current philosophy of language as having an altered focus without adjusting the needed conceptual tools. It develops a new theory of lexical meaning, a new conception of cognition - humans not as information processing creatures but as primarily explanation and understanding seeking creatures - with information processing as a secondary, derivative activity. Based on the theories of lexical meaning and cognition, this book sketches an argument showing that the human understanding of human understanding must always remain just partial.

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About the Author

Julius M. Moravcsik (1931 2009) was professor of philosophy at Stanford University.

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Publisher
The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1575861275
ISBN 13 
9781575861272
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
350

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