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  1. (4 other versions)Rules and representations.Noam A. Chomsky - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (127):1-61.
    The book from which these sections are excerpted is concerned with the prospects for assimilating the study of human intelligence and its products to the natural sciences through the investigation of cognitive structures, understood as systems of rules and representations that can be regarded as These mental structui′es serve as the vehicles for the exercise of various capacities. They develop in the mind on the basis of an innate endowment that permits the growth of rich and highly articulated structures along (...)
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  • (4 other versions)Rules and representations.Noam A. Chomsky - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):1-15.
    The book from which these sections are excerpted is concerned with the prospects for assimilating the study of human intelligence and its products to the natural sciences through the investigation of cognitive structures, understood as systems of rules and representations that can be regarded as “mental organs.” These mental structui′es serve as the vehicles for the exercise of various capacities. They develop in the mind on the basis of an innate endowment that permits the growth of rich and highly articulated (...)
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  • Procedural Semantics for Hyperintensional Logic: Foundations and Applications of Transparent Intensional Logic.Marie Duží, Bjorn Jespersen & Pavel Materna - 2010 - Dordrecht, Netherland: Springer.
    The book is about logical analysis of natural language. Since we humans communicate by means of natural language, we need a tool that helps us to understand in a precise manner how the logical and formal mechanisms of natural language work. Moreover, in the age of computers, we need to communicate both with and through computers as well. Transparent Intensional Logic is a tool that is helpful in making our communication and reasoning smooth and precise. It deals with all kinds (...)
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  • Précis of O'Keefe & Nadel's The hippocampus as a cognitive map.John O'Keefe & Lynn Nadel - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):487-494.
    Theories of spatial cognition are derived from many sources. Psychologists are concerned with determining the features of the mind which, in combination with external inputs, produce our spatialized experience. A review of philosophical and other approaches has convinced us that the brain must come equipped to impose a three-dimensional Euclidean framework on experience – our analysis suggests that object re-identification may require such a framework. We identify this absolute, nonegocentric, spatial framework with a specific neural system centered in the hippocampus.A (...)
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  • The faculty of language: what's special about it?Ray Jackendoff & Steven Pinker - 2005 - Cognition 95 (2):201-236.
    We examine the question of which aspects of language are uniquely human and uniquely linguistic in light of recent suggestions by Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch that the only such aspect is syntactic recursion, the rest of language being either specific to humans but not to language (e.g. words and concepts) or not specific to humans (e.g. speech perception). We find the hypothesis problematic. It ignores the many aspects of grammar that are not recursive, such as phonology, morphology, case, agreement, and (...)
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  • Zero-stimulation for parameter setting.Robin Freidin & A. Carlos Quicoli - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):338-339.
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  • The child's trigger experience: Degree-0 learnability.David Lightfoot - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):321-334.
    According to a “selective” (as opposed to “instructive”) model of human language capacity, people come to know more than they experience. The discrepancy between experience and eventual capacity (the “poverty of the stimulus”) is bridged by genetically provided information. Hence any hypothesis about the linguistic genotype (or “Universal Grammar,” UG) has consequences for what experience is needed and what form people's mature capacities (or “grammars”) will take. This BBS target article discusses the “trigger experience,” that is, the experience that actually (...)
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  • Positive and negative evidence in language acquistion.Jane Grimshaw & Steven Pinker - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):341-342.
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  • Syntax, More or Less.John Collins - 2007 - Mind 116 (464):805-850.
    Much of the best contemporary work in the philosophy of language and content makes appeal to the theories developed in generative syntax. In particular, there is a presumption that—at some level and in some way—the structures provided by syntactic theory mesh with or support our conception of content/linguistic meaning as grounded in our first-person understanding of our communicative speech acts. This paper will suggest that there is no such tight fit. Its claim will be that, if recent generative theories are (...)
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  • Taste, traits, and tendencies.Alexander Dinges & Julia Zakkou - 2021 - Philosophical Studies 178 (4):1183-1206.
    Many experiential properties are naturally understood as dispositions such that e.g. a cake tastes good to you iff you are disposed to get gustatory pleasure when you eat it. Such dispositional analyses, however, face a challenge. It has been widely observed that one cannot properly assert “The cake tastes good to me” unless one has tried it. This acquaintance requirement is puzzling on the dispositional account because it should be possible to be disposed to like the cake even if this (...)
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  • The cognitive map as a hippocampus.John O'Keefe & Lynn Nadel - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):520-533.
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  • Rules and causation.John R. Searle - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):37-38.
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  • Passing the buck to biology.Daniel C. Dennett - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):19-19.
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  • Notational Variance and Its Variants.Rohan French - 2019 - Topoi 38 (2):321-331.
    What does it take for two logics to be mere notational variants? The present paper proposes a variety of different ways of cashing out notational variance, in particular isolating a constraint on any reasonable account of notational variance which makes plausible that the only kinds of translations which can witness notational variance are what are sometimes called definitional translations.
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  • Natural Genome Editing from a Biocommunicative Perspective.Guenther Witzany - 2011 - Biosemiotics 4 (3):349-368.
    Natural genome editing from a biocommunicative perspective is the competent agent-driven generation and integration of meaningful nucleotide sequences into pre-existing genomic content arrangements, and the ability to (re-)combine and (re-)regulate them according to context-dependent (i.e. adaptational) purposes of the host organism. Natural genome editing integrates both natural editing of genetic code and epigenetic marking that determines genetic reading patterns. As agents that edit genetic code and epigenetically mark genomic structures, viral and subviral agents have been suggested because they may be (...)
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  • Spatial mapping only a special case of hippocampal function.Jeffrey A. Gray - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):501-503.
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  • Evolutionary anatomy and language.Michael T. Ghiselin - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):20-20.
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  • Waves and cells, maps and memories, space and time.J. Eric Holmes - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):505-506.
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  • Simple is not easy.Edison Barrios - 2016 - Synthese 193 (7):2261-2305.
    I review and challenge the views on simplicity and its role in linguistics put forward by Ludlow. In particular, I criticize the claim that simplicity—in the sense pertinent to science—is nothing more than ease of use or “user-friendliness”, motivated by economy of labor. I argue that Ludlow’s discussion fails to do justice to the diversity of factors that are relevant to simplicity considerations. This, in turn, leads to the neglect of crucial cases in which the rationale for simplification is unmistakably (...)
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  • Notational Variants and Invariance in Linguistics.Kent Johnson - 2015 - Mind and Language 30 (2):162-186.
    This article argues that the much-maligned ‘notational variants’ of a given formal linguistic theory play a role similar to alternative numerical measurement scales. Thus, they can be used to identify the invariant components of the grammar; i.e., those features that do not depend on the choice of empirically equivalent representation. Treating these elements as the ‘meaningful’ structure of language has numerous consequences for the philosophy of science and linguistics. I offer several such examples of how linguistic theorizing can profit from (...)
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  • Category mistakes in m&e.Gilbert Harman - 2003 - Philosophical Perspectives 17 (1):165–180.
    Theories of causation may imply that your birth causes your death, which seems odd in the way that it is not odd to say that your birth precedes your death. Theories of knowledge may imply that the object of knowledge is the same as the object of belief, although we know but do not believe facts and we can know a proposition without knowing whether it is true.
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  • Structural realism and generative linguistics.Ryan M. Nefdt - 2021 - Synthese 199 (1-2):3711-3737.
    Linguistics as a science has rapidly changed during the course of a relatively short period. The mathematical foundations of the science, however, present a different story below the surface. In this paper, I argue that due to the former, the seismic shifts in theory over the past 80 years opens linguistics up to the problem of pessimistic meta-induction or radical theory change. I further argue that, due to the latter, one current solution to this problem in the philosophy of science, (...)
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  • Focus and uninformativity in Yucatec Maya questions.Scott AnderBois - 2012 - Natural Language Semantics 20 (4):349-390.
    Crosslinguistically, questions frequently make crucial use of morphosyntactic elements which also occur outside of questions. Chief among these are focus, disjunctions, and wh-words with indefinite semantics. This paper provides a compositional account of the semantics of wh-, alternative, and polar questions in Yucatec Maya (YM), which are composed primarily of these elements. Key to the account is a theory of disjunctions and indefinites (extending work by others) which recognizes the inherently inquisitive nature of these elements. While disjunctions and indefinites are (...)
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  • The new organology.John C. Marshall - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):23-25.
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  • The non-uniqueness of semantic solutions: Polysemy. [REVIEW]Geoffrey Nunberg - 1979 - Linguistics and Philosophy 3 (2):143 - 184.
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  • Notational Variants and Cognition: The Case of Dependency Grammar.Ryan M. Nefdt & Giosué Baggio - 2024 - Erkenntnis 89 (7):2867-2897.
    In recent years, dependency grammars have established themselves as valuable tools in theoretical and computational linguistics. To many linguists, dependency grammars and the more standard constituency-based formalisms are notational variants. We argue that, beyond considerations of formal equivalence, cognition may also serve as a background for a genuine comparison between these different views of syntax. In this paper, we review and evaluate some of the most common arguments and evidence employed to advocate for the cognitive or neural reality of dependency (...)
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  • The new organology.Noam Chomsky - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):42-61.
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  • Chomsky's evidence against Chomsky's theory.Geoffrey Sampson - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):34-35.
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  • Focus Below the Word Level.Ron Artstein - 2004 - Natural Language Semantics 12 (1):1-22.
    Intonational focus can be observed on parts of words that appear to lack intrinsic meaning, and triggers alternatives that are similar in form. In order to provide a unified treatment of focus above and below the word level (they do, after all, behave the same in most respects), I develop a theory of denotations for arbitrary word parts in which focused word parts denote their own sound and the unfocused parts are functions from sounds to word meanings. This allows focus (...)
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  • There are many modular theories of mind.Adam Morton - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):29-29.
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  • Two quibbles about analyticity and psychological reality.Gilbert Harman - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):21-22.
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  • A possible mathematical specification of “degree-0” or “degree-0 plus a little” learnability.Aravind K. Joshi - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):345-347.
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  • Language learning versus grammar growth.Robert J. Matthews - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):25-26.
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  • What every speaker cognizes.Stephen P. Stich - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):39-40.
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  • The structural properties of the anagram in poetry.Giampaolo Sasso - 2016 - Semiotica 2016 (213):123-164.
    This article illustrates the main theoretical and practical problem of the study of the anagram in poetry, the still unknown entity of the anagrammatic combination, which requires specific software in order to perform a structural analysis of the text. This difficulty explains the failure of Saussure’s original hypotheses and the gradual decline, following the rediscovery of his work, of the interest of researchers in this subject. However, some poems (by Blake, Moore, Mallarmé, Valéry, Apollinaire, and Leopardi) illustrate the enormous potential (...)
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  • Representation and psychological reality.Elliott Sober - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):38-39.
    In this brief space I want to describe how Chomsky's analysis of "psychological reality" departs from what I think is a fairly standard construal of the idea. This familiar formulation arises from distinguishing between someone's following a rule and someone's acting in conformity with a rule. The former idea, but not the latter, involves the idea that the person has some mental representation of the rule that plays a certain causal role in determining behavior. Although there may be many grammatical (...)
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  • Hippocampus, memory and movement.Abram Amsel - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):494-495.
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  • Some remarks on the notion of competence.József Andor - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):15-16.
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  • Some observations on degree of learnability.C. L. Baker - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):334-335.
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  • Selective activation of hippocampal neurons.Theodore W. Berger - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):495-496.
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  • Behavioral analysis of the hippocampal syndrome.D. Caroline Blanchard & Robert J. Blanchard - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):496-496.
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  • O'Keefe & Nadel's three-stage model for hippocampal representation of space.T. V. P. Bliss - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):496-497.
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  • On triggers.Hugh W. Buckingham - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):335-336.
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  • The “neuroethological revolution” in unit studies.Jan Bureš - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):497-498.
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  • Parameter setting in “instantaneous” and real-time acquisition.Guglielmo Cinque - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):336-336.
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  • Causality and parameter setting.Robin Clark - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):337-338.
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  • Empirical evidence in support of non-empiricist theories of mind.Richard F. Cromer - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):16-18.
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  • The language faculty and the interpretation of linguistics.Robert Cummins & Robert M. Harnish - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):18-19.
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  • The hippocampus and its apparent migration to the parietal lobe.Robert J. Douglas - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):498-499.
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  • On the nature of cognitive maps.Roger M. Downs - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):499-500.
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