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Chomsky's Language and Mind*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2010

Harry M. Bracken
Affiliation:
McGill University

Extract

Noam Chomsky's Beckman Lectures, delivered at Berkeley in 1967, have been published as Language and Mind. The text makes a good introduction for the philosopher to Chomsky's linguistic theories and their impact on philosophy and psychology. He begins: “In these lectures, I would like to focus attention on the question, What contribution can the study of language make to our understanding of human nature”?

Type
Critical Notice/Étude critique
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1970

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References

1 Noam Chomsky, Cartesian Linguistics (New York: Harper & Row, See my review, forthcoming in the Journal of the History of Philosophy.

2 Times Literary Supplement, May, 1969, pp. 523–5.

3 (Antoine Arnauld et Claude Lancelot) La grammaire générale et raisonnée, (1660), in A. Arnauld,Oeuvres (Paris: d'Arnay, 1775–83), T. 41.

4 Chomsky, Noam, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1965Google Scholar.

5 Language and Philosophy, ed. S. Hook (New York: NYU Press, 1969) p. 77.

6 Some of Chomsky's views on social, moral and political issues appear in his American Power and the New Mandarins (New York: Pantheon Books, 1969).

7 Cf. Y. Bar-Hillel, ”The Present Status of Automatic Translation of Languages,” in Advances in Computers, ed. Franz L. Alt, (New York: Press, 1960), Vol. I, pp. 91–163. See esp. Appendix III, ”A Demonstration of the Nonfeasibility of Fully Automatic High Quality Translation,” p. 158 f.

8 Universals in Linguistic Theory, ed. Emmon Bach & Robert T. Harms (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968), pp. 121–2.