The Chomskian revolution in linguistics gave rise to a new orthodoxy about mind and language. Michael Devitt throws down a provocative challenge to that orthodoxy. What is linguistics about? What role should linguistic intuitions play in constructing grammars? What is innate about language? Is there a'language faculty'? These questions are crucial to our developing understanding of ourselves; Michael Devitt offers refreshingly original answers.
The Chomskian revolution in linguistics gave rise to a new orthodoxy about mind and language. Michael Devitt throws down a provocative challenge to that orthodoxy. What is linguistics about? What role should linguistic intuitions play in constructing grammars? What is innate about language? Is there a'language faculty'? These questions are crucial to our developing understanding of ourselves; Michael Devitt offers refreshingly original answers.
Michael Devitt is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He taught at the University of Sydney from 1971 until 1987 and the University of Maryland from 1988 to 1999. His main research interests are in the philosophy of language and mind, and in issues of realism. He is the author of Designation (Columbia, 1981), Realism and Truth (2nd edn with Afterword, Princeton, 1997), Coming to Our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism (Cambridge, 1996), and Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (with Kim Sterelny, 2nd edn, MIT, 1999).
Inhaltsangabe
I. Linguistics is not Psychology 1: Introduction 2: A grammar as a theory of linguistic reality II. Positions on Psychological Reality 3: Some possible positions on psychological reality 4: Some actual postions on psychological reality III. 'Philosophical' Arguments for the Representational Thesis 5: The Rejection of Behaviourism 6: Folk Psychology 7: Intuitions IV. The Relation of Language to Thought 8: Thought before language 9: A case for the psychological reality of language 10: Thought and the language faculty V. Language Use and Acquisition 11: Language use 12: Language acquisition
I. Linguistics is not Psychology 1: Introduction 2: A grammar as a theory of linguistic reality II. Positions on Psychological Reality 3: Some possible positions on psychological reality 4: Some actual postions on psychological reality III. 'Philosophical' Arguments for the Representational Thesis 5: The Rejection of Behaviourism 6: Folk Psychology 7: Intuitions IV. The Relation of Language to Thought 8: Thought before language 9: A case for the psychological reality of language 10: Thought and the language faculty V. Language Use and Acquisition 11: Language use 12: Language acquisition
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