The Science of Language
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The Science of Language

Interviews with James McGilvray

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eBook - PDF

The Science of Language

Interviews with James McGilvray

About this book

Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential thinkers of our time, yet his views are often misunderstood. In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning language, human nature and politics. In dialogue with James McGilvray, Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Chomsky takes up a wide variety of topics – the nature of language, the philosophies of language and mind, morality and universality, science and common sense, and the evolution of language. McGilvray's extensive commentary helps make this incisive set of interviews accessible to a variety of readers. The volume is essential reading for those involved in the study of language and mind, as well as anyone with an interest in Chomsky's ideas.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Science of Language
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Part 1: The science of language and mind
  8. Part II: Human nature and its study
  9. Appendix I: I-concepts, I-beliefs, and I-language
  10. Appendix II: The several uses of "function"
  11. Appendix III: On what is distinctive about human nature (and how to deal with the distinction)
  12. Appendix IV: Chomsky on natural science
  13. Appendix V: Of concepts and misguided theories of them, and why human concepts are unique
  14. Appendix VI: Semantics and how to do it
  15. Appendix VII: Hierarchy, structure, domination, c-command, etc.
  16. Appendix VIII: Variation, parameters, and canalization
  17. Appendix IX: Simplicity
  18. Appendix X: Hume on the missing shade of blue and related matters
  19. Appendix XI: Syntax, semantics, pragmatics, non-Chomskyan and Chomskyan
  20. Appendix XII: An internalist picture of how concepts 'work'
  21. Commentaries
  22. Glossary
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index