Antony / Hornstein Chomsky and His Critics

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77977-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Philosophers and their Critics

In this compelling volume, ten distinguished thinkers -- William G.Lycan, Galen Strawson, Jeffrey Poland, Georges Rey, Frances Egan,Paul Horwich, Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietroski, Alison Gopnik, and RuthMillikan -- address a variety of conceptual issues raised in NoamChomsky's work.
* * Distinguished list of critics: William G. Lycan, GalenStrawson, Jeffrey Poland, Georges Rey, Frances Egan, Paul Horwich,Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietroski, Alison Gopnik, and RuthMillikan.
* Includes Chomsky's substantial new replies and responses toeach essay.
* The best critical introduction to Chomsky's thought as awhole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Antony, Louise M.

Hornstein, Norbert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Norbert Hornstein (University of Maryland, CollegePark) and Louise M. Antony (The Ohio State University).
1. Chomsky on the Mind-Body Problem: William G. Lycan(University of North Carolina).
2. Chomsky's Challenge to Physicalism: Jeffrey Poland(University of Nebraska-Lincoln).
3. Real Materialism: Galen Strawson (University of Reading).
4. Naturalistic Inquiry: Where does Mental Representation FitIn?: Frances Egan (Rutgers University).
5. Chomsky, Intentinality and a CRTT: Georges Rey (University ofMaryland, College Park).
6. Referential Semantics for I-languages?: Peter Ludlow (StateUniversity of New York, Stony Brook).
7. Meaning and Its Place in the Language Faculty: Paul Horwich(Graduate Center of the City University of New York).
8. Small Verbs, Complex Events: Analyticity without Synonymy:Paul M. Pietroski (University of Maryland, College Park).
9. In Defense of Public Language: Ruth Garrett Millikan(University of Connecticut).
10. The Theory Theory as an Alternative to the InnatenessHypothesis: Alison Gopnik (Universtiy of California atBerkeley).
11. Replies: Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology).
12. Major Works By and About Noam Chomsky (MassachusettsInstitute of Technology).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Louise M. Antony is Professor of Philosophy and Women'sStudies at The Ohio State University. She is editor, with CharlotteWitt, of A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason andObjectivity, 2nd edn. (2002).
Norbert Hornstein is Professor of Linguistics at theUniversity of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Move!A Minimalist Theory of Construal (Blackwell, 2000), LogicalForm: From GB to Minimalism (Blackwell, 1995),and As TimeGoes By: Tense and Universal Grammar (1994).