Representation of Language
Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 October 2020
- ISBN 9780198855637
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages478 pages
- Size 245x165x30 mm
- Weight 1 g
- Language English 46
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Short description:
Georges Rey presents a much-needed philosophical defense of Noam Chomsky's famous view of human language, as an internal, innate computational system. But he also offers a critical examination of problematic developments of this view, to do with innateness, ontology, intentionality, and other issues of interdisciplinary interest.
MoreLong description:
This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objectionsthat have been raised against it. It also provides, however, a critical examination of some of the glosses on the theory: the assimilation of it to traditional Rationalism; a supposed conflict between being innate and learned; an unclear ontology and the need of a "representational pretense" with regard to it; and, most crucially, a rejection of Chomsky's eliminativism about the role of intentionality not only in his own theories, but in any serious science at all. This last is a fundamentally important issue for linguistics, psychology, and philosophy that an examination of a theory as rich and promising as a Chomskyan linguistics should help illuminate. The book ends with a discussion of some further issues that Chomsky misleadingly associates with his theory: an anti-realism about ordinary thought and talk, and a dismissal of the mind/body problem(s), towards the solution of some of which his theory in fact makes an important contribution.
Combining philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, and psycholinguistics, Rey offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary theory of linguistic competence and its basis in the makeup of the human mind.
Table of Contents:
I. The Core Linguistic Theory
The Core Galilean Idea and Some Crucial Data
The Basics of Generative Grammars
Competence/Performance: I- vs. E-languages
Knowledge and The Explanatory Project
II. Core Philosophical Views
Grades of Nativism: From Projectability to Brute Process
Resistence of Even Mental Realists and the Need of Representational Pretence
Linguistic Intuitions and the Voice of Competence
III. Intentionality
Chomsky and Intentionality
Linguistic Ontology
Linguo-Semantics
Psycho-Semantics of Perceptual Content
