Special Speaking-1

Speaking up for the Clerks 1

At the end of his essay " Pragmatism, pluralism, and postmodernism " (1998), Richard Rorty writes: " Many of my fellow philosophers use the term " post-modernist relativism " as if it were a pleonasm, and as if utilitarians, pragmatists, and philosophical pluralists in general had committed a sort of " treason " of the clerks, as Julien Benda puts it. 1 Has Rorty betrayed the clerks? Well, it i...

Cover Special (1) Issue vol. 15, no. 7, October 2018

1 Speaking vs . Thinking about Objects and Actions

A strong version of the Whorfian hypothesis is that the influence of language on thought is obligatory or at least habitual; that is, thought is always, or under most circumstances, guided by language. We argue, in contrast, that at the lexical level, language and thought need not closely or commonly mirror each other. Naming – of objects, events, or other entities -is a communicative process t...

Symbolically Speaking 1 Running head: SYMBOLICALLY SPEAKING SUBMITTED TO COGNITIVE SCIENCE --- DO NOT CITE Symbolically Speaking: A Connectionist Model of Sentence Production

The ability to combine words into novel sentences has been used to argue that humans have symbolic language production abilities. Critiques of connectionist models of language often center on the inability of these models to generalize symbolically (Fodor & Pylyshyn, 1988; Marcus, 1998). A connectionist model of sentence production is described which has variables that are inspired by distincti...

Theoretically Speaking

The MIS Quarterly has always had a strong focus on building and testing theory. In this regard, most research articles published in the MIS Quarterly have proposed a theory and then tested it either in whole or in part. In the June 1998 issue of the MIS Quarterly, however, Bob Zmud as then Editor-in-Chief issued a call for pure-theory submissions: research article submissions that had the sole ...