Ernie Lepore and Jerry Fodor have published a series of original and controversial essays on issues relating to compositionality in language and mind; they have now revised them all for publication together in this volume. Compositionality is the following aspect of a system of representation: the complex symbols in the system inherit their syntactic and semantic properties from the primitive symbols of the system. Fodor and Lepore argue that compositionality determines what view we must take of the nature of concepts. Anyone trying to figure out how language and mind work must take account of this challenging work by two leading figures in the field.

Introduction; 1. WHY MEANING PROBABLY ISN'T CONCEPTUAL ROLE (1991); 2. The Pet Fish and the Red Herring: Why Concepts aren't Prototypes (1996); 3. Why Compositionality Won't Go Away: Reflections on Horwich's 'Deflationary Theory' (2001); 4. What Can't be Valued, Can't be Valued, and it Can't be Supervalued Either (1996); 5. THE EMPTINESS OF THE LEXICON (1998); 6. Impossible Word Arguments (1999); 7. BRANDOM'S BURDENS: CRITICAL STUDY OF BRANDOM'S ARTICULATING REASONS; 8. Churchland on State Space Semantics (1996); 9. All at Sea in Semantic Space: Churchland on Meaning Similarity (1999)

Jerry A. Fodor is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Ernie Lepore is Director of Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science.

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