VOLUME 2 (1989), ISSUE 1

Editorial:

JOHN RUST
Philosophical Psyhchology's one-year anniversary

Manuscripts:

JOHN HAWTHORNE
On the compatibility of connectionist and classical models

• Abstract:

PAUL E. GRIFFITHS
Folk, functional, and neurochemical aspects of mood

• Abstract:

JOSE M. ARCAYA
Memory and temporality: A phenomenological alternative

• Abstract:

NORMAN WETHERICK
Psychology and syllogistic reasoning

• Abstract:

Symposium: Logical Form in Natural Language

• Symposium Abstract: William Lycan's Logical form in natural language provides a vigorous defense of the view that the primary component of the meaning of a sentence consists in the conditions that would make the sentence true. In addition to tracing out the implications of this view of semantics for linguistics, Lycan also argues that both syntax and semantics are psychologically real, in that our linguistic abilities depend, not just on formal syntactic capacities, but also on the ability to interpret idioms in terms of truth conditions. McCarthy, a logician, Lakoff, a linguist, and Baker, a philosopher of mind, each examine a critical component of Lycan's analysis. McCarthy considers the technical apparatus of the truth-conditional analysis of meaning, and maintains that it is not adequate to reveal the basic semantic commitments of language. Lakoff raises methodological objections to Lycan's attempt to ground the interpretation of language on truth conditions and rejects the paradox Lycan claims to find in the type of analysis of performatives Lakoff and others have advanced. Finally, Baker focuses on Lycan's claim of psychological reality by challenging the adequacy of the interpretation function Lycan proposes for dealing with contextual variables affecting semantic interpretation. Lycan offers responses to each of these critical essays.

WILLIAM G. LYCAN
Logical form in natural language: A précis

TIMOTHY McCARTHY
Syntactic interpretations of truth and semantic underdetermination

WILLIAM G. LYCAN
Reply to McCarthy

GEORGE LAKOFF
Philosophical speculation and cognitive science

WILLIAM G. LYCAN
Reply to Lakoff

LYNNE RUDDER BAKER
Truth in context

WILLIAM G. LYCAN
Reply to Baker

Book Review:

PAISLEY LIVINGSTON
Review of J. MARKS' The ways of desire: New essays in philosophical psychology on the concept of wanting