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Noam Chomsky has made major contributions to three fields: political history and analysis, linguistics, and the philosophies of mind, language, and human nature. In this thoroughly revised and updated volume, James McGilvray provides a critical introduction to Chomsky's work in these three key areas and assesses their continuing importance and relevance for today. In an incisive and comprehensive analysis, McGilvray argues that Chomsky’s work can be seen as a unified intellectual project.
He shows how Chomsky adapts the tools of natural science to the study of mind and of language in particular and explains why Chomsky's "rationalist" approach to the mind continues to be opposed by the majority of contemporary cognitive scientists. The book also discusses some of Chomsky’s central political themes in depth, examining how Chomsky's view of the good life and the ideal form of social organization is related to and in part dependent on his biologically based account of human nature and the place of language within it.
As in the first edition, McGilvray emphasizes the distinction between common sense and science and the difference between rationalist and empiricist approaches to the mind, making clear the importance of these themes for understanding Chomsky's work and showing that they are based on elementary observations that are accessible to everyone. This edition has been extensively re-written to emphasize Chomsky's recent work, which increasingly 'biologizes' the study of language and mind and - by implication - the study of human nature.
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- Höfundur: McGilvray, James
- Útgáfa:2
- Útgáfudagur: 12/2013
- Blaðsíður: 288
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- Format:Page Fidelity
- ISBN 13: 9780745674148
- Print ISBN: 9780745649900
- ISBN 10: 0745674143
Efnisyfirlit
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- A brief biography
- 1: Chomsky’s Contributions
- Chomsky’s contributions and access to them
- The beginning
- The natural science of language
- Political analysis and criticism
- Philosophy of language and mind
- The unity of Chomsky’s work?
- 2: The Mind and Its Sciences
- Introduction
- The issues for the scientist of mind and the strategies
- Naturalistic methodology and the study of mind
- Natural science
- Rationalism vs. empiricism: the strategy for the naturalistic study of mind
- 3: Partitioning the Mind: Bad and Good Cognitive Science
- Problem-solving and beyond
- An illustration
- The status of cognitive science: Fodor’s first error
- Computational theories of the mind: Fodor’s second error
- The selection–adaptation gambit
- Modularity: is it enough?
- On being innate
- 4: Human Problem-Solving Capacities
- What does the mind do?
- Science-formation and commonsense understanding: focusing on concepts
- Displaying commonsense concept characters
- Examples with false cousin concepts
- Accepting the gap
- Resistance to the gap in studying the mind
- Encapsulating the differences
- The status of capacities
- Natural limitations on the mind
- Overview and conclusion
- 5: The Science of Language
- Where to find a science of language: syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
- Comparison to Frege
- Language as formal function
- Language as formal function: the wrong approach
- Language as formal function: the right approach
- Complete theories?
- Progress in linguistics
- How the Principles and Parameters (P&P) framework makes a sentence
- Binding theory
- X-bar theory
- Movement, progress, perfection – and evolution
- Coping with differences
- 6: Linguistic Meanings and Their Uses
- Words to perspectives to interpretations
- Deep Structure again
- Computation and inclusiveness
- Again, the lexicon
- Stereotypes, atomicity, and Fodor’s misinterpretation of atomicity
- Chomsky and Cudworth on interpretation: “innate cognoscitive power” and prolepsis
- Relevance of the science of language to politics?
- 7: Chomsky on Politics: Some Basic Themes
- Focusing
- Chomsky’s focus and style in political writing
- Power and its abuse
- Power and ideology: ‘economic man’
- Power and democracy: Madison and Jefferson
- Foreign policy, imperial ambitions, and military power
- The manufacture of consent
- General points
- The propaganda model
- The responsibility of intellectuals
- The anarchosyndicalist conception of persons and their social organization
- 8: Language and Politics: Justification
- The needs of human nature
- The relativist’s challenge, the new social science, and projection
- Orwell’s problem
- Biological humanist?
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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