A profoundly arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Written with an informality that belies the originality of its insights and the radical nature of its conclusions, this is the author's most important book since his groundbreaking Foundations of Language in 2002.
A profoundly arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Written with an informality that belies the originality of its insights and the radical nature of its conclusions, this is the author's most important book since his groundbreaking Foundations of Language in 2002.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ray Jackendoff is Seth Merrin Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. His books include Semantics and Cognition (MIT 1983), Consciousness and the Computational Mind (MIT 1987), The Architecture of the Language Faculty (MIT 1997), Foundations of Language (OUP 2002), Simpler Syntax (with Peter Culicover, OUP 2005), Language, Consciousness, Culture: Essays on Mental Structure (MIT 2007), and Meaning and the Lexicon: The Parallel Architecture, 1975-2010 (OUP, 2010). He is the 2014 recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize, the premier award in the field of cognitive science.
Inhaltsangabe
1: Why do we need a User's Guide to thought and meaning? Part One: Language, Words, and Meaning 2: What's a language? 3: Perspectives on English 4: Perspectives on sunsets, tigers, and puddles 5: What's a word? 6: What counts as the same word? 7: Some uses of mean and meaning 8: "Objective" and "subjective" meaning 9: What do meanings have to be able to do? 10: Meanings can't be visual images 11: Word meanings aren't cut and dried 12: Not all the meaning is in the words 13: Meanings, concepts, and thoughts 14: Does your language determine your thought? Part Two: Consciousness and Perception 15: What's it like to be thinking? 16: Some phenomena that test the Unconscious Meaning Hypothesis 17: Conscious and unconscious 18: What does "What is consciousness?" mean? 19: Three cognitive correlates of conscious thought 20: Some prestigious theories of consciousness 21: What's it like to see things? 22: Two components of thought and meaning 23: See something as a fork 24: Other modalities of spatial perception 25: How do we see the world as "out there"? 26: Other "feels" in experience Part Three: Reference, Truth, and Thought 27: How do we use language to talk about the world? 28: Mismatching reference in conversation 29: What kinds of things can we refer to? (Cognitive metaphysics, Lesson 1) 30: Referential files for pictures and thoughts 31: What's truth? 32: Problems for an ordinary perspective on truth 33: What's it like to judge a sentence true? 34: Noticing something's wrong 35: What's it like to be thinking rationally? 36: How much rational thinking do we actually do? 37: How rational thinking helps 38: Chamber music 39: Rational thinking as a craft 40: Some pitfalls of apparently rational thinking Part IV: A Larger View 41: Some speculation on science and the arts 42: Ordinary and cognitive perspectives on morality 43: Ordinary and cognitive perspectives on religion 44: Learning to live with multiple perspectives Index
1: Why do we need a User's Guide to thought and meaning? Part One: Language, Words, and Meaning 2: What's a language? 3: Perspectives on English 4: Perspectives on sunsets, tigers, and puddles 5: What's a word? 6: What counts as the same word? 7: Some uses of mean and meaning 8: "Objective" and "subjective" meaning 9: What do meanings have to be able to do? 10: Meanings can't be visual images 11: Word meanings aren't cut and dried 12: Not all the meaning is in the words 13: Meanings, concepts, and thoughts 14: Does your language determine your thought? Part Two: Consciousness and Perception 15: What's it like to be thinking? 16: Some phenomena that test the Unconscious Meaning Hypothesis 17: Conscious and unconscious 18: What does "What is consciousness?" mean? 19: Three cognitive correlates of conscious thought 20: Some prestigious theories of consciousness 21: What's it like to see things? 22: Two components of thought and meaning 23: See something as a fork 24: Other modalities of spatial perception 25: How do we see the world as "out there"? 26: Other "feels" in experience Part Three: Reference, Truth, and Thought 27: How do we use language to talk about the world? 28: Mismatching reference in conversation 29: What kinds of things can we refer to? (Cognitive metaphysics, Lesson 1) 30: Referential files for pictures and thoughts 31: What's truth? 32: Problems for an ordinary perspective on truth 33: What's it like to judge a sentence true? 34: Noticing something's wrong 35: What's it like to be thinking rationally? 36: How much rational thinking do we actually do? 37: How rational thinking helps 38: Chamber music 39: Rational thinking as a craft 40: Some pitfalls of apparently rational thinking Part IV: A Larger View 41: Some speculation on science and the arts 42: Ordinary and cognitive perspectives on morality 43: Ordinary and cognitive perspectives on religion 44: Learning to live with multiple perspectives Index
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