Mind Design and Minimal SyntaxOxford University Press, 24/02/2006 - 320 من الصفحات This book introduces generative grammar as an area of study and asks what it tells us about the human mind. Wolfram Hinzen lays the foundation for the unification of modern generative linguistics with the philosophies of mind and language. He introduces Chomsky's program of a 'minimalist' syntax as a novel explanatory vision of the human mind. He explains how the Minimalist Program originated in work in cognitive science, biology, linguistics, and philosophy, and examines its implications for work in these fields. He considers the way the human mind is designed when seen as an arrangement of structural patterns in nature, and argues that its design is the product not so much of adaptive evolutionary history as of principles and processes that are ahistorical and internalist in character. Linguistic meaning, he suggests, arises in the mind as a consequence of structures emerging on formal rather than functional grounds. From this he substantiates an unexpected and deeply unfashionable notion of human nature. Clearly written in nontechnical language and assuming a limited knowledge of the fields it examines and links, Minimal Mind Design will appeal to a wide range of scholars in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. It also provides an exceptionally clear insight into the nature and aims of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. |
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... internalist aspect—what organs mature in ontogeny is a function of genetic factors and laws of development—it assumes that the study of our 'mental organization' should have this aspect too. In particular, it will Preface.
... internalist aspect—what organs mature in ontogeny is a function of genetic factors and laws of development—it assumes that the study of our 'mental organization' should have this aspect too. In particular, it will Preface.
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... laws. Leaving 'secondary' properties of matter, which essentially depended on our contingent ways to apprehend nature (taste, colour, sound, and smell), out of account was a price to pay for the new science, a conclusion that Hume would ...
... laws. Leaving 'secondary' properties of matter, which essentially depended on our contingent ways to apprehend nature (taste, colour, sound, and smell), out of account was a price to pay for the new science, a conclusion that Hume would ...
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... laws all the same, why couldn't the same state of affairs exist in the case of thinking as well? Matter had ceased to be wholly 'material', and though one could continue to defend the Cartesian dualism of two substances, it had become ...
... laws all the same, why couldn't the same state of affairs exist in the case of thinking as well? Matter had ceased to be wholly 'material', and though one could continue to defend the Cartesian dualism of two substances, it had become ...
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... laws, and between the mathematical and the brutely empirical. Epistemologically, the understanding of human nature was meant to go as far as that of other sciences (which, according to most authors, was not very far), and there were no ...
... laws, and between the mathematical and the brutely empirical. Epistemologically, the understanding of human nature was meant to go as far as that of other sciences (which, according to most authors, was not very far), and there were no ...
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