A Companion to Chomsky - (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) by Nicholas Allott & Terje Lohndal & Georges Rey (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A COMPANION TO CHOMSKY</b> <p>Widely considered to be one of the most important public intellectuals of our time, Noam -Chomsky has revolutionized modern linguistics. His thought has had a profound impact upon the philosophy of language, mind, and science, as well as the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science which his work helped to establish. Now, in this new <i>Companion</i> dedicated to his substantial body of work and the range of its influence, an international assembly of prominent linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists reflect upon the interdisciplinary reach of Chomsky's intellectual contributions.<p>Balancing theoretical rigor with accessibility to the non-specialist, the <i>Companion</i> is organized into eight sections--including the historical development of Chomsky's theories and the current state of the art, comparison with rival usage-based approaches, and the relation of his generative approach to work on linguistic processing, acquisition, semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. Later chapters address Chomsky's rationalist critique of behaviorism and related -empiricist approaches to psychology, as well as his insistence upon a "Galilean" methodology in cognitive science. -Following a brief discussion of the relation of his work in linguistics to his work on political issues, the book concludes with an essay written by Chomsky himself, reflecting on the history and character of his work in his own words.<p>A significant contribution to the study of Chomsky's thought, <i>A Companion to Chomsky</i> is an indispensable resource for philosophers, linguists, psychologists, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers with interest in Noam Chomsky's intellectual legacy as one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Widely considered to be one of the most important public intellectuals of our time, Noam -Chomsky has revolutionized modern linguistics. His thought has had a profound impact upon the philosophy of language, mind, and science, as well as the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science which his work helped to establish. Now, in this new <i>Companion</i> dedicated to his substantial body of work and the range of its influence, an international assembly of prominent linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists reflect upon the interdisciplinary reach of Chomsky's intellectual contributions.</p><p>Balancing theoretical rigor with accessibility to the non-specialist, the <i>Companion</i> is organized into eight sections--including the historical development of Chomsky's theories and the current state of the art, comparison with rival usage-based approaches, and the relation of his generative approach to work on linguistic processing, acquisition, semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. Later chapters address Chomsky's rationalist critique of behaviorism and related -empiricist approaches to psychology, as well as his insistence upon a "Galilean" methodology in cognitive science. -Following a brief discussion of the relation of his work in linguistics to his work on political issues, the book concludes with an essay written by Chomsky himself, reflecting on the history and character of his work in his own words.</p><p>A significant contribution to the study of Chomsky's thought, <i>A Companion to Chomsky</i> is an indispensable resource for philosophers, linguists, psychologists, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers with interest in Noam Chomsky's intellectual legacy as one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Nicholas Allott</b> is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Oslo. His work focuses on pragmatics, inference and rationality in communication, word meaning and lexical modulation, legal language and interpretation, and the philosophy of linguistics. His publications include <i>Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals</i> (with Neil Smith) (2016).</p><p><b>Terje Lohndal</b> is Professor of English Linguistics at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Adjunct Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His main areas of research are comparative grammar, multilingualism, and the history of generative linguistics. He has published numerous papers, and several books, among them, <i>Phrase Structure and Argument Structure</i> (2014).</p><p><b>Georges Rey</b> is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has written extensively on the foundations of cognitive science, including more than sixty articles and two books, <i>Contemporary Philosophy of Mind</i> (1997) and <i>Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics</i> (2020).</p>
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