A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning
by Ray Jackendoff
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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.Tags
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A relatively short and simple presentation of what the author assures us could have been a dense 1000-page treatise. According to him: the semantics component of the human language faculty lies below the level of consciousness; the phonological representations of thoughts are conscious but the thoughts themselves are not; more generally, perceptual structures are conscious but conceptual ones are not; the cognitive perspective can answer some of the questions of metaphysics; rational thought ~= intuitive thought + language. All very interesting.
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Ray Jackendoff has been Professor of Linguistics at Brandeis University since 1971. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a past president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology
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