This is the first part of a two‐part article on semantic compositionality, that is, the principle
that the meaning of a complex expression is determined by the meanings of its parts and the …

Drawing on the philosophy of psychological explanation, we suggest that psychological
science, by focusing on effects, may lose sight of its primary explananda: psychological …

Despite a multitude of empirical studies, little consensus exists on whether neural networks
are able to generalise compositionally, a controversy that, in part, stems from a lack of …

Modern technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, geo-engineering, social media, or
next-generation genomics have been and will continue to be socially (culturally …

This is the second part of a two‐part article on compositionality, ie the principle that the
meaning of a complex expression is determined by the meanings of its parts and the way …

Humans naturally acquire languages that connect meanings with pronunciations. Paul M.
Pietroski presents an account of these distinctive languages as generative procedures that …

Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic, and philosophy. Quantifiers
are the essential tools with which, in language or logic, we refer to quantity of things or …

Anything that deserves to be called a language must contain meaningful expressions built
up from other meaningful expressions. How are their complexity and meaning related? The …

In this book leading scholars from every relevant field report on all aspects of
compositionality, the notion that the meaning of an expression can be derived from its parts …

This article presents three more-or-less-traditional considerations for compositionality. The
first is that the usual statement of the compositionality principle is massively ambiguous. One …