Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Between Criticism and Defence of a Computational Reason -- 1. Glamour -- 2. Logos, Verbum, Concept -- 3. Thresholds -- 4. Architecture -- 5. Evolutionary Explanation -- 6. Generativity -- 7. Beyond Modularity -- 8. Tacit Functions of Mind -- 9. Non-Formal Grammar -- 10. Mind, Grammar, and Evolution -- Part One: Grammar -- I. What are Rules of Grammar? The view from the Psychological and Linguistic Perspective -- 1. Syntactocentric View of Language and Beyond -- 1.1. Syntax -- 1.2. Competence -- 2. Basic Assumptions -- 3. On the Relations Between Levels of Linguistic Description -- 3.1. The Relation Between Syntax and Semantics -- 3.2. The Relation Between Lexical and Encyclopaedic Meanings, Semantics and Pragmatics -- 4. Criteria for the Characterization of Meaning -- 4.1. Conditional Criteria -- 4.2. Operational Criteria -- 5. What Are Rules of Grammar? -- 6. Conclusions -- II. Rethinking Language Faculty. Has Language Evolved for Other than Language Related Reasons? -- 1. Language, Language Faculty, Language Faculty in Narrow Sense -- 2. Two Kinds of Similarity: Analogous and Homologous -- 3. Evolution, Natural Selection and Adaptations -- III. The Concept of Linguistic Intelligence and Beyond -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Idea of Multiple Intelligences -- 3. The Nature of Linguistic Intelligence -- 4. Dissociations Between Language and General Intelligence -- 5. Conclusion and Implications for Education -- IV. Language and its Doppelgängers -- 1. Initial Distinction -- 2. What is Language for? -- 3. In Vain Search of Recursion in the Living World -- 4. The Decomposition of Language -- 5. Language and Beyond -- Part Two: Cooperation -- I. The Evolution of the Disposition for Cooperative Behaviour Versus Symbolic Communication. The Case of Peter Gärdenfors.

1. The Evolutionary Explanation of the Existence of Language -- 2. Cues and Detached Representations -- 3. Anticipatory Planning -- 4. Signals and Symbols -- 5. Cooperation and Communication by Symbols -- 6. The Logic of the Evolution of Language -- 7. The Evolution of Referential Expressions -- 7.1. Names -- 7.2. Nouns -- 7.3. Adjectives -- 8. The Origin of a Detached Man -- 9. Conclusions: Language and Cooperation -- II. Boundary of Modularity. The Case of a Faculty of Social Cognition -- 1. Problem -- 2. From Spatial Representation to Representation of Persons? -- 3. The Autonomy of a Faculty of Social Cognition -- 4. The Structure of a Social Cognition Faculty -- 5. Input-Output versus Central Modules -- 6. Arguments Against Modular Structure of Concepts and Attempts to Refute Them -- 7. Evolutionary Development of Modular Conceptual Structure -- 8. Modules of a Conceptual Structure. The Auditory Processor -- 9. Multiple Inputs and Outputs on the Same "Blackboard" -- 10. Modules, Mental Organs, Cognitive Faculties -- 11. Vertical and Horizontal Psychology -- 12. Structure and Principles Governing Architectural Design -- 13. Conclusions -- III. The Problem of a Moral Faculty: Marc D. Hauser's Specific Approach to the Functioning of Moral Grammar -- 1. First Intuitions -- 2. Moral Organ -- 3. Modelling: From Perception to Reaction -- 4. Argumentation -- 4.1. Experiments -- 4.2. Moral Dilemmas -- 4.3. Developmental Psychology Tests -- 4.4. Animal Behaviour Studies -- 5. Conclusions -- IV. Risk and Cooperation. Uncertainty about the Behaviour of Others -- 1. Risk -- 2. Decisions -- 3. Zero-sum Game -- 4. The Prisoner's Dilemma -- 5. The Logic of Cheating -- 6. Hypotheses -- References -- Index.