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Subject: The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code Switching: Bullock, Toribio (Eds)

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 Title: The Science of Language 
Subtitle: Interviews with James McGilvray 
Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Author: Noam Chomsky
Author: James McGilvray

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Abstract:

Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential thinkers of our time, yet his
views are often misunderstood. In this previously unpublished series of
interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning
language, human nature and politics. In dialogue with James McGilvray,
Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Chomsky takes up a wide variety
of topics – the nature of language, the philosophies of language and mind,
morality and universality, science and common sense, and the evolution of
language. McGilvray's extensive commentary helps make this incisive set of
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Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I. The Science of Language and Mind:

1. Language, function, communication: language and the use of language
2. On a formal theory of language and its accommodation to biology. The
distinctive nature of human concepts
3. Representation and computation
4. More on human concepts
5. Reflections on the study of language
6. Parameters, canalization, innateness, universal grammar
7. Development, master/control genes, etc.
8. Perfection and design (interview 20 January 2009)
9. Universal grammar and simplicity
10. On some intellectual ailments of scientists
11. The place of language in the mind
12. Chomsky's intellectual contributions
13. Simplicity and its role in Chomsky's work
14. Chomsky and Nelson Goodman

Part II. Human Nature and its Study: 

15. Chomsky on human nature and human understanding
16. Human nature and evolution: thoughts on sociobiology and evolutionary
psychology
17. Human nature again
18. Morality and universalization
19. Optimism and grounds for it
20. Language, agency, common sense, and science
21. Philosophers and their roles
22. Biophysical limitations on understanding
23. Epistemology and biological limits
24. Studies of mind and behavior and their limitations
25. Linguistics and politics

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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