Papers by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
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Editions du Seuil eBooks, 1979
Théories du langage, théories de l'apprentissage. voir notice détaillée. Titre: Théories... more Théories du langage, théories de l'apprentissage. voir notice détaillée. Titre: Théories du langage, théories de l'apprentissage. Auteur: PIAGET, Jean; CHOMSKY, Noam; PIATTELLI-PALMARINI, Massimo; NOIZET, Yvonne. Description: 533 p. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2042/29619 ...
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Nature, Dec 1, 2003
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Nature, Mar 1, 2002
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The Linguistic Review, Jan 12, 2005
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Seuil eBooks, 1974
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Seuil eBooks, 1974
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Jun 1, 2003
... interested in my claims for its wider significance. Linguists, philosophers, and logicians mi... more ... interested in my claims for its wider significance. Linguists, philosophers, and logicians might be excited to discover a new light cast on their subjects by recent neu-rological research. 1.1. The bridge from logic to language The ...
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Springer eBooks, 1980
The processes by which an organization can be set up and maintained, can grow, reproduce itself a... more The processes by which an organization can be set up and maintained, can grow, reproduce itself and give rise to other organizations, are now the object of study of autonomous scientific disciplines. According to the late W. Ross Ashby, the great English cybernetician, the distinctive trait of this new science is to “presuppose without, however, specifying” the physical nature of the systems it studies, since its real vocation is to look for the general laws of organization and not the rules of production, transport and utilization of energy. It is in practically identical terms that Ludwig von Bertalanffy defines ‘general systems theory’; and the emphasis placed on the non-directly material or energetic nature of the phenomena dealt with often reappears in the works of other cyberneticians such as Gordon Pask, Heinz von Foerster, Donald D. McKay and Norbert Wiener. Here is a source of misunderstandings: moreover we could see here an indication of how theoretical preoccupations go beyond the framework of these disciplines. Every theoretical model presupposes in fact the material nature of its realizations without having to specify it, and every theoretical model establishes relations between abstract invariants. The principle of virtual work, Lagrange and Hamilton-Jacobi equations, the second principle of thermodynamics, Maxwell’s equations all presuppose the material nature of concrete instances to which they are applied, without, however, specifying it.
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Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 2, 2018
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Communications, 1979
Piattelli-Palmarini Massimo. Structure distale et sensation proximale. In: Communications, 31, 19... more Piattelli-Palmarini Massimo. Structure distale et sensation proximale. In: Communications, 31, 1979. La nourriture. Pour une anthropologie bioculturelle de l'alimentation, sous la direction de Claude Fischler. pp. 171-188
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Cambridge University Press eBooks, May 5, 2013
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Biolinguistics, Sep 23, 2008
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Dec 1, 2001
Bloom masterfully captures the state-of-the-art in the study of lexical acquisition. He also expo... more Bloom masterfully captures the state-of-the-art in the study of lexical acquisition. He also exposes the extent of our ignorance about the learning of names for non-observables. HCLMW adopts an innatist position without adopting modularity of mind; however, it seems likely that modularity is needed to bridge the gap between object names and the rest of the lexicon.
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Biolinguistics, Dec 31, 2017
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O. Jacob eBooks, 1995
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Dec 1, 1990
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Birkhäuser Boston eBooks, 1992
The goal of the workshop, upon which the present volume is based, was to promote an earnest excha... more The goal of the workshop, upon which the present volume is based, was to promote an earnest exchange of ideas between neuroscientists and researchers in other disciplines. The “Description of Goals” circulated by the organizers urged us “to explore how modern neuroscience has changed conceptions of what it means to be a human being.” I will prudently leave this formidable task to the neuroscientists themselves, but there is something I do want to say about ways in which modern cognitive science has changed our conceptions of what it means to explain human behavior. Certain general considerations may be seen as relevant by neuroscientists and I will attempt to stress such relevance. The particular departure point I have chosen here is the logical problem represented by a scientific explanation of meanings in natural languages. Summarily stated, this is the problem of mapping linguistic sounds onto mental representations that have a definite content, this content (a proposition) having in turn the property of being true or false, or, more generally, of satisfying certain relations of adequacy with respect to real or possible “states of affairs.” More on all this in a moment. Adopting a terminology that has become common in linguistics and in cognitive science, the expression “logical problem” suggests an analysis of the basic assumptions that any theory of meaning, reference, and truth is bound to share, and a reflection on the fundamental nature of the task, irrespective of the specific hypothese one choose to adopt. Let′s look at these points in turn.
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