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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... notion of form used here may be W. v. Humboldt's notion of the 'Form of human language', on which Chomsky (1966: 19, fn. 39) remarks that it amounts to much the same thing as the modern notion of the 'generative grammar' of a language ...
... notion of form used here may be W. v. Humboldt's notion of the 'Form of human language', on which Chomsky (1966: 19, fn. 39) remarks that it amounts to much the same thing as the modern notion of the 'generative grammar' of a language ...
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... notion of innate knowledge (Fodor 1981, 1998), or their defence of some version of a priori knowledge (Peacocke 2002). Yet, human nature, as a theoretical concept, figures in none of them in any central way. Aspects of all these ...
... notion of innate knowledge (Fodor 1981, 1998), or their defence of some version of a priori knowledge (Peacocke 2002). Yet, human nature, as a theoretical concept, figures in none of them in any central way. Aspects of all these ...
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... notions. Science attributed physical properties to things, and the description of the real entailed abandoning our common-sense conceptions. Descartes was particularly concerned with mechanical models in physiology. Just as the universe ...
... notions. Science attributed physical properties to things, and the description of the real entailed abandoning our common-sense conceptions. Descartes was particularly concerned with mechanical models in physiology. Just as the universe ...
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... notion of 'cause', reckoned by Joseph Fourier, Auguste Comte, and later Bertrand Russell, to be a relic of a pre-scientific 'metaphysical' age. Modern physics can make little sense of our common-sense notion of a 'solid body'. When ...
... notion of 'cause', reckoned by Joseph Fourier, Auguste Comte, and later Bertrand Russell, to be a relic of a pre-scientific 'metaphysical' age. Modern physics can make little sense of our common-sense notion of a 'solid body'. When ...
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... notion of human nature in the first place. Locke's label as an empiricist must count as similarly doubtful (even though his method was empirical—like that of any other 'natural philosopher' of the time).7 Quite possibly, any inquiry ...
... notion of human nature in the first place. Locke's label as an empiricist must count as similarly doubtful (even though his method was empirical—like that of any other 'natural philosopher' of the time).7 Quite possibly, any inquiry ...
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