Grammar and Glamour of Cooperation: Lectures on the Philosophy of Mind, Language and Action: 2 (Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences) - Hardcover

Wrobel, Szymon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3631650914 ISBN 13: 9783631650912

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, 2014

Synopsis

This book is a collection of essays, weaving together cognitive psychology, psycho-linguistics, developmental psychology, modern philosophy and behavioural sciences. It raises the question: how does grammar relate to our remarkable ability to cooperate for future needs? The author investigates the interconnections between the mechanisms governing cooperation and reciprocal altruism on the one hand and the capacity to generate an infinite range of expressions from a finite set of syntactically structured elements on the other. Based on these premises, the specific character of cognitive explanations, possible architectures of mind, non-formal grammar and tacit knowledge are explored. Furthermore the author deals with the role of conceptual representations in explaining grammar, the modular structure of mind and the evolutionary origins of human language ability and moral authority.

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About the Author

Szymon Wróbel is a Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Faculty of Artes Liberales of the University of Warsaw. He is a psychologist and philosopher researching contemporary social and political theory and philosophy of language. His latest book Deferring the Self has been published in 2013.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631650914
• ISBN 13: 9783631650912
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248