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Representation of Language - Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics (Hardcover)
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Representation of Language - Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics (Hardcover)
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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 "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.
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