Meaning, creativity, and the partial inscrutability of the human mind

Julius M. Moravcsik

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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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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[目次]

  • Introduction: where has the philosophy of language gone wrong?
  • Part I. Why Natural Languages are Not and Should Not be Represented as Formal Language: 1. Natural languages cannot be formal languages: the Lexicon
  • 2. Natural languages cannot be formal languages: the logical structure
  • Part II. The Lexicon, Explanations, and Productivity: 3. Lexical meanings as explanatory schemes
  • 4. Key issues in theories of languages
  • Part III. Explanation, the Productive Lexicon, and Limitations on Understanding Understandings: 5. Homo Sapiens - Homo Explanans
  • 6. Is the human mind partially inscrutable?

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[目次]

  • Introduction: where has the philosophy of language gone wrong?
  • Part I. Why Natural Languages are Not and Should Not be Represented as Formal Language: 1. Natural languages cannot be formal languages: the Lexicon
  • 2. Natural languages cannot be formal languages: the logical structure
  • Part II. The Lexicon, Explanations, and Productivity: 3. Lexical meanings as explanatory schemes
  • 4. Key issues in theories of languages
  • Part III. Explanation, the Productive Lexicon, and Limitations on Understanding Understandings: 5. Homo Sapiens - Homo Explanans
  • 6. Is the human mind partially inscrutable?

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書名 Meaning, creativity, and the partial inscrutability of the human mind
著作者等 Moravcsik, J. M. E.
Moravcsik J.M.
シリーズ名 CSLI lecture notes
出版元 CSLI Publications
刊行年月 c1998
ページ数 viii, 200 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 1575861267
1575861275
NCID BA3858753X
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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