http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/lexicon/
vendle, v. To attempt to sell a philosopher a
linguistic bill of goods; hence, vendler, n. one
who vendles.
From the Linguist List (http://linguistlist.org/):
"Zeno Vendler died of kidney failure on January 13, 2004, while on an
extended stay with family in Hungary. He was 82, and had retired earlier from UCSD.
He also taught at Cornell, Brooklyn College, and the University of Calgary,
where he was a founding member of the philosophy department."
Vendler's _Res Cogitans_ is cited by D. Rosenthal, in D. Sperber,
_Metarepresentations_.
C. Recanati has presented a revision and correction of Vendler's taxonomy of
verbs (in French).
From http://www.phil.ucalgary.ca/people/vendler.html
Res Cogitans: An Essay In Rational Psychology. Cornell University Press,
London, 1972. Using the techniques of generative linguistics and of analytical
philosophy, he treats in detail the relationship between speech and thought and
develops his own distinctively rationalistic Cartesian perspective on the
concept of mind. He argues that speech is essentially the expression of thought and
sets out to distinguish between the objective and the subjective dimensions
of thought. He examines learning and understanding speech in terms of a
distinction between native and acquired parts of language. He uses his results to
reject the empiricist and behaviourist views of the human mind and defend a
modified and improved version of the Cartesian view.
JL
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