Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore have produced a series of original and controversial essays on issues relating to compositionality in language and mind; they have now revised them all for publication together in this volume. Compositionality is the following aspect of a system of representation: the complex symbols in the system inherit their syntactic and semantic properties from the primitive symbols of the system. Fodor and Lepore argue that compositionality determines what view we must take of the nature of concepts. Anyone trying to figure out how language and mind work must take account of this challenging work by two leading figures in the field.

About the Author
Jerry A. Fodor is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Ernie Lepore is Director of Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science.


Book Information
ISBN 9780199252169
Author Jerry A. Fodor
Format Paperback
Page Count 220
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 269g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 138mm * 13mm