Foundational Issues (v. 1) (Compositionality of Meaning and Content) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3937202528 ISBN 13: 9783937202525

Publisher: ontos verlag, 2005

Synopsis

Representational systems such as language, mind or brain, exhibit a structure that is widely assumed to be compositional, i.e., the semantic value of complex representations is determined by the semantic values of its parts. Dating back to the late nineteenth century, the principle of compositionality has recently regained wide attention. Since the way the principle has been dealt with differs across disciplines, the aim of these two volumes is to conjoin the diverging approaches. The editors have assembled a collection of original essays that cover the topic of compositionality from virtually all perspectives of interest in the contemporary debate. The well chosen international list of authors includes psychologists, neuroscientists, computer scientists, linguists and philosophers, among them: D. Bonnais; Johannes Brandl; Marc Breuer; David Byrd; Daniel Cohnitz; Malte Dahlgrn; Reinaldo Elugardo; Tim Fernando; Kenneth Gemes; Verena Gottschling; Pierre Jacob; Hannes Leitgeb; Menno Lievers; Alda Mari ; Jaume Mateu; Albert Newen; Jaroslav Peregrin; Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen; Kenneth Presting; Oleg Prosorov; Gerhard Schurz ; Finn Spicer; and Markus Werning.

Markus Werning, Edouard Machery, and Gerhard Schurz are professors of philosophy at the Heinrich-Heine-University at Duesseldorf, Germany.

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The principle of compositionality has regained wide attention. Aiming to conjoin the diverging approaches, this book assembles a collection of papers that cover the topic of compositionality from perspectives of interest in the debate. The list of authors includes psychologist, neuroscientist, computer scientist, linguists and philosophers.

Synopsis

Representational systems such as language, mind or brain exhibit a structure that is widely assumed to be compositional, i.e. the semantic value of complex representations is determined by the semantic values of their parts. Dating back to the late 19th century, the principle of compositionality has regained wide attention recently. Since the way the principle has been dealt with differs largely across the disciplines, the aim of the two volumes is to conjoin the diverging approaches. They assemble a collection of original papers that cover the topic of compositionality from virtually all perspectives of interest in the contemporary debate. The well-chosen international list of authors includes psychologist, neuroscientist, computer scientist, linguists and philosophers.

Edition details

• Publisher: ontos verlag
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3937202528
• ISBN 13: 9783937202525
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 309
• Editor: Werning Markus, Machery Edouard, Schurz Gerhard