Representation of Language (eBook)

Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics

Georges Rey (Autor)

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2020
384 Seiten
OUP Oxford (Verlag)
978-0-19-259774-8 (ISBN)

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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 "e;representational pretense"e; with regard to it; and, most crucially, a rejection of Chomsky's eliminativism aboutthe 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 endswith 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-19-259774-4 / 0192597744
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-259774-8 / 9780192597748