The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics (The Jean Nicod Lectures 1993)

Four lectures delivered in Paris in spring 1993 to inaugurate an annual series of interdisciplinary cognitive talks. Fodor (philosophy, Rutgers and City U. of New York) reassesses and amplifies his extensive work on the relation between mind and meaning, in his accustomed playful style. Accessible to nonspecialists. No subject index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.