Table of Contents

Preface 1: Thoughts, sentences, and unities 2: The unity problem(s) 3: The priority thesis: judgement over naming 4: The reign of disunity 5: Syntax and the creation of objects: towards an explanation of unity 6: Clarification and defence 7: The linguistic status of Merge Bibliography Index

About the Author

John Collins is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He has published widely in the philosophies of language and mind, and has a special interest in generative linguistics, the concepts of truth and meaning, and early analytical philosophy. He is the author of numerous articles in leading journals and Chomsky: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008).

Reviews

`a remarkably original book that manages to develop a genuinely novel perspective on one of the most venerable and fundamental problems of philosophy. ' Wolfram Hinzen and Ulrich Reichard, Mind `The so-called "problem of the unity of the proposition" has received much renewed interest recently. . . . John Collins sheds some interesting new light on the problem and proposes an original solution that draws on the lessons from early analytic philosophers, contemporary philosophy of language, and linguistics. . . . I am sure that Collins's book will prove to be a valuable resource. ' Katarina Perovic, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews