| Series Foreword | xv |
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| Preface
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| Acknowledgments | xxiii |
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| PART I
The Nicod Lectures | 1 |
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| Chapter 1
Mental Structure
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| 1.1 | Locating the Study of Mental Structure in Cognitive Neuroscience | 3 |
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| 1.2 | Mental "Structure" versus Mental "Representation" | 5 |
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| 1.3 | The Mental Structures of a Simple Sentence | 7 |
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| 1.4 | Relevance to Neuroscience | 13 |
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| 1.5 | An Overall Vision of Mental Architecture | 16 |
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| 1.6 | A Caution, and What Modularity Means | 22 |
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| Chapter 2
Reintegrating Generative Grammar | 25 |
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| 2.1 | Introduction | 25 |
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| 2.2 | Three Founding Themes of Generative Grammar | 26 |
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| 2.3 | The Broken Promise
Deep Structure Would Be the Key to the Mind | 33 |
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| 2.4 | A Scientific Mistake
Syntactocentrism | 35 |
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| 2.5 | Phonology as an Exemplar of the Parallel Architecture | 38 |
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| 2.6 | The Syntax-Semantics Interface | 43 |
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| 2.7 | The Outcome
Parallel Architecture | 48 |
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| 2.8 | Another Fundamental Mistake
The Lexicon/Grammar Distinction | 53 |
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| 2.9 | The Words-and-Rules Controversy | 60 |
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| 2.10 | Four Ways the Parallel Architecture Helps Integrate Linguistics with Cognitive Neuroscience | 64 |
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| 2.11 | Conclusions | 75 |
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| Chapter 3
Conscious and Unconscious Aspects of Language Structure | 77 |
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| 3.1 | The State of the Art | 77 |
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| 3.2 | What Parts of Linguistic Are Conscious? | 80 |
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| 3.3 | A Second Dimension of Consciousness
Valuation | 87 |
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| 3.4 | The Role of Attention in Consciousness | 98 |
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| 3.5 | How Language Enhances Thought | 104 |
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| 3.6 | Concluding Remarks, Including Evolution of Language Again | 107 |
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| Chapter 4
Shaking Hands and Making Coffee: The Structure of Complex Actions | 111 |
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| 4.1 | Introduction | 111 |
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| 4.2 | Shaking Hands | 113 |
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| 4.3 | Making Coffee | 123 |
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| 4.4 | Building Structure | 130 |
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| 4.5 | Summing Up | 139 |
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| Chapter 5
Cognition of Society and Culture | 145 |
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| 5.1 | Social Cognition as a Cognitive Capacity | 145 |
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| 5.2 | Parallels with Linguistics | 147 |
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| 5.3 | Objections from Social Science | 155 |
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| 5.4 | A Role for Linguistics | 158 |
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| 5.5 | The Physical and the Social/Personal Domains | 161 |
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| 5.6 | Affiliations
Kinship, Alliances, Dominance | 165 |
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| 5.7 | Groups | 167 |
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| 5.8 | Cooperation and Competition | 172 |
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| 5.9 | Framing | 175 |
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| 5.10 | Rules and Other Normative Principles | 178 |
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| 5.11 | What Grounds Morality?
Where Science Bumps Up against Politics | 183 |
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| PART II
The Structure of Social Cognition and Theory of Mind | 189 |
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| Chapter 6
Perception Verbs and Theory of Mind | 191 |
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| 6.1 | Introduction to Part II
Overview of Conceptual Structure | 192 |
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| 6.2 | Actors and Patients/Undergoers | 197 |
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| 6.3 | Experiencers and Stimuli | 204 |
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| 6.4 | AFF, EXP, and Theory of Mind | 206 |
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| 6.5 | The Mapping of EXP to Syntax | 208 |
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| 6.6 | Experiencer Verbs without Overt Experiencers | 213 |
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| Chapter 7
Objective and Subjective Psychological and Evaluative Predicates | 217 |
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| 7.1 | The Problems | 217 |
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| 7.2 | Classes of A¤ective/Evaluative Psychological Predicates | 218 |
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| 7.3 | Experiencer-Subject Adjectives and Verbs | 224 |
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| 7.4 | Stimulus-Subject Adjectives | 228 |
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| 7.5 | Stimulus-Subject Verbs | 229 |
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| 7.6 | Adding the Macrorole Tier | 234 |
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| 7.7 | Valence in the Macrorole Tier
More Theory of Mind | 237 |
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| 7.8 | Why Subjective and Objective Systems? | 239 |
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| Chapter 8
Intending and Volitional Action | 243 |
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| 8.1 | Introduction | 243 |
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| 8.2 | Animate Actions as a Special Class of Situations | 244 |
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| 8.3 | Situational and Actional Attitudes | 247 |
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| 8.4 | The Folk Metaphysics of Actional Attitudes | 254 |
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| 8.5 | The Conceptual Structure of Believe and Intend | 255 |
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| 8.6 | Doing Something Intentionally, the Volitionality of Action, and Imperatives | 262 |
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| 8.7 | Fulfilling versus Voiding an Intention; Purposes | 268 |
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| 8.8 | Joint Intentions | 272 |
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| 8.9 | Conclusion | 275 |
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| Chapter 9
The Logic of Value | 277 |
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| 9.1 | Overview | 277 |
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| 9.2 | Affective Value | 280 |
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| 9.3 | Utility | 283 |
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| 9.4 | Getting Into and Out Of the System | 284 |
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| 9.5 | Resource Value, Quality, and Prowess | 287 |
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| 9.6 | Normative Value and Personal Normative Value | 290 |
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| 9.7 | Some Inferences Involving Normative Value | 293 |
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| 9.8 | Esteem | 297 |
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| 9.9 | Summary | 300 |
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| Chapter 10
Fairness, Reciprocity, and Exchange | 305 |
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| 10.1 | Fairness and Selfishness | 305 |
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| 10.2 | Reciprocation, Retaliation, and Restitution | 312 |
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| 10.3 | Honoring, Shaming, and Apologizing | 317 |
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| 10.4 | Deserving | 319 |
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| 10.5 | Exchange | 323 |
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| 10.6 | Linguistic Expression of Exchange of Objects and Actions | 328 |
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| Chapter 11
Rights and Obligations | 333 |
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| 11.1 | Introduction | 333 |
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| 11.2 | The Argument Structure of Rights and Obligations | 335 |
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| 11.3 | What One Can Do with Rights and Obligations | 340 |
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| 11.4 | Rights and Obligations Are Not Understood Metaphorically | 342 |
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| 11.5 | Existentially versus Universally Quantified Rights and Obligations | 344 |
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| 11.6 | The Fundamental Principles of Rights and Obligations
Consequences of Noncompliance | 345 |
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| 11.7 | Reciprocal Rights and Obligations | 350 |
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| 11.8 | Authority | 351 |
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| 11.9 | Where Does It Come From? | 354 |
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| Chapter 12
Trumpets and Drums | 359 |
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| 12.1 | Methodology in Studying Social Cognition and Theory of Mind | 359 |
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| 12.2 | Theory of Mind and Social Cognition
What's Innate, and What's Special to Humans? | 362 |
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| References | 369 |
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| Index
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