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8 - Cognitive Science: What Should It Be?

from Part II - The Human Mind and Its Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2017

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James McGilvray
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James McGilvray
James McGilvray
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McGill University, Montréal
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The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky , pp. 175 - 195
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