Internalist Explorations Of MeaningRay Jackendoff (Tufts)Conceptual SemanticsIn this talk, delivered at Harvard University on November 13th 2007, Ray Jackendoff elaborates on his internalist approach to the study of meaning, called Conceptual Semantics. According to Jackendoff, it is necessary for semanticists to study not language in isolation, but conceptual structure ("thought"), the domain-general medium of mental representation.The talk was part of the interdisciplinary reading group Internalist Explorations Of Meaning. For more information, visit the group's website.Organizer:Dennis Ott (dott@fas.harvard.edu)Department of Linguistics, Harvard University
Internalist Explorations Of Meaning is an interdisciplinary reading group in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University. We focus on questions about the relation between language and the external world, and what it means to study meaning in natural language internalistically. The reading group is accompanied by a series of talks, which will be made available here.To learn more about the project, visit our website: http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~dott/internalism/Contact: Dennis, dott@fas.harvard.edu
