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1 online resource (330 pages) |
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Cover; The Science of Language; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part 1: The science of language and mind; 1: Language, function, communication: language and the use of language; 2: On a formal theory of language and its accommodation to biology; the distinctive nature of human concepts; Supplemental material from interview 20 January 2009; 3: Representation and computation; 4: More on human concepts; 5: Reflections on the study of language; 6: Parameters, canalization, innateness, Universal Grammar; 7: Development, master/control genes, etc. |
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8: Perfection and design (interview 20 January 2009)9: Universal Grammar and simplicity; 10: On the intellectual ailments of some scientists; 11: The place of language in the mind; 12: Chomsky's intellectual contributions; 13: Simplicity and its role in Chomsky's work; 14: Chomsky and Nelson Goodman; Part II: Human nature and its study; 15: Chomsky on human nature and human understanding; 16: Human nature and evolution: thoughts on sociobiology and evolutionary psychology; 17: Human nature again; 18: Morality and universalization; August 17, 2004 session; 19: Optimism and grounds for it. |
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20: Language, agency, common sense, and science21: Philosophers and their roles; 22: Biophysical limitations on understanding; 23: Epistemology and biological limits; 24: Studies of mind and behavior and their limitations; 25: Linguistics and politics; Appendix I: I-concepts, I-beliefs, and I-language; Appendix II: The several uses of "function"; II.1 Common sense and interest-dependent function; II.2 Mathematics and natural science: formal functions; II.3 Biology: function-for-an-organism; II.4 Biology: function-of-an-organ. |
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Appendix III: On what is distinctive about human nature (and how to deal with the distinction)Appendix IV: Chomsky on natural science; Appendix V: Of concepts and misguided theories of them, and why human concepts are unique; V.1 Concepts and ways of going wrong; V.2 Are human concepts unique?; Appendix VI: Semantics and how to do it; VI. 1 Introduction; VI. 2 What is wrong with an externalist science of meaning: first pass; VI. 3 What is wrong with semantic externalism: second pass; Appendix VII: Hierarchy, structure, domination, c-command, etc. |
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Brain in a vat. |
| Summary |
In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning language, human nature and politics. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Chomsky, Noam -- Interviews.
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Chomsky, Noam. |
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Interviews. |
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Chomsky, Noam -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Cognition and language.
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Cognition and language. |
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Psycholinguistics.
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Psycholinguistics. |
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Electronic books.
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Interviews.
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McGilvray, James.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chomsky, Noam. Science of Language : Interviews with James McGilvray. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9781107016378 |
| ISBN |
9781139338677 |
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1139338676 |
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9781139336932 (electronic book) |
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1139336932 (electronic book) |
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9781139061018 |
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1139061011 |
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9781139341837 (electronic book) |
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1139341839 (electronic book) |
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9781107016378 |
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1107016371 |
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9781107602403 |
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1107602408 |
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9786613572035 |
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