Chomsky: Language, Mind, and Politics Paperback - 1999
by James McGilvray
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During his career Noam Chomsky has contributed immensely to the ways in which human beings understand their languages, their minds, their actions, and even themselves as persons.
From the rear cover
Noam Chomsky is well known as a linguist and as a political thinker. He is less well known as a philosopher. Yet his rationalist philosophy ties common-sense understandings of human action and decision (including political thought and action) to that human mental capacity we call language.
The key to Chomsky's overall intellectual project lies in what he has to say about a biologically based human nature. McGilvray explains Chomsky's view of human nature in the first three chapters. He begins by distinguishing common-sense understanding from scientific knowledge. He then outlines the scientific picture of the mind that Chomsky favours. Finally, by appealing to basic observations concerning how language is acquired and used, McGilvray shows why Chomsky adopts the view he does. The last five chapters outline Chomsky's linguistic and political views and, by appeal to his biological-rationalist conception of human nature, explore the connections between them.
Chomsky's revitalized rationalism has profound implications for both the science of the human mind ('cognitive science') and for an understanding of human action. No responsible individual can afford to ignore it.
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- Title Chomsky: Language, Mind, and Politics
- Author James McGilvray
- Binding Paperback
- Edition reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1999.
- Date 1999-10-25
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780745618883 / 074561888X
- Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.01 x 0.86 in (22.86 x 15.27 x 2.18 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Modern
- Library of Congress subjects Linguistics, Philosophy of mind
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99011074
- Dewey Decimal Code 191
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