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

Moravcsik, Julius M.

ISBN 10: 1575861267 / ISBN 13: 9781575861265

Published by The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1998

About this Item

1998. paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Meaning, Creativity, and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind: 79 (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes)
• Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575861267
• ISBN 13: 9781575861265
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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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.

About the Author

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