. . . an excellent collection . . . -Journal of Language & Social Psychology
An important collection of original essays by well-known scholars debating the questions of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language.
Introduction: Marco Santambrogio and Patrizia Violi
On the Circumstantial Relation between Meaning and Content: Jon Barwise
On Truth. A Fiction: Umberto Eco
Quantification, Roles and Domains: Gilles Fauconnier
Conceptual Semantics: Ray Jackendoff
How Is Meaning Mentally Represented?: Philip N. Johnson-Laird
Cognitive Semantics: George Lakoff
The Analysis of Nominal Compounds: Wendy G. Lehnert
Knowledge Representation in People and Machines: Roger Schank and Alex Kass
Identity in Intensional Logic: Subjective Semantics: Bas Van Fraassen
Reference and Its Role in Computational Models of Mental Representation: Yorick Wilks