Languages of the Mind: Essays on Mental Representation

by Ray S. Jackendoff

Book Overview

Over the past two decades, Ray Jackendoff has persistently tackled difficult issues in the theory of mind and related theories of cognitive processing. Chief among his contributions is a formal theory that elaborates the nature of language and its relationship to a broad set of other domains.

Languages of the Mind provides convenient access to Jackendoff's work over the past five years on the nature of mental representations in a variety of cognitive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262600242
• ISBN13: 9780262600248
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

The book is the bomb!

Jackendoff has clearly articulated the where's and why's of mental representations and arrives at the conclusion that we need to acknowledge that we are just a product of biological evolution. Forget about spirit or that special something, our minds are computers. Great Book!