Language, Logic, and Concepts

by John Theodore MacNamara (Editor), Paul Bloom (Editor), Karen Wynn (Editor)

This wide-ranging collection of essays is inspired by the memory of the cognitivepsychologist John Macnamara, whose influential contributions to language and concept acquisitionhave provided the basis for numerous research programs. The areas covered by the essays include thefoundations of language and thought, congnitive and linguistic development, and mathematicalapproaches to cognition.

Genres: Linguistics, Psychology, Philosophy, Logic, Language

498 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999