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 Ruth Millikan — address a variety of conceptual issues raised in Noam Chomsky’s work.
* Distinguished list of critics: William G. Lycan, Galen Strawson, Jeffrey Poland, Georges Rey, Frances Egan, Paul Horwich, Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietroski, Alison Gopnik, and Ruth Millikan.
* Includes Chomsky’s substantial new replies and responses to each essay.
* The best critical introduction to Chomsky’s thought as a whole.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Norbert Hornstein (University of Maryland, College
Park) 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 Fit
In?: Frances Egan (Rutgers University).
5. Chomsky, Intentinality and a CRTT: Georges Rey (University of
Maryland, College Park).
6. Referential Semantics for I-languages?: Peter Ludlow (State
University 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 Innateness
Hypothesis: Alison Gopnik (Universtiy of California at
Berkeley).
11. Replies: Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology).
12. Major Works By and About Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology).
Index.
Sobre o autor
Louise M. Antony is Professor of Philosophy and Women’s
Studies at The Ohio State University. She is editor, with Charlotte
Witt, of A Mind of One’s Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and
Objectivity, 2nd edn. (2002).
Norbert Hornstein is Professor of Linguistics at the
University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Move!
A Minimalist Theory of Construal (Blackwell, 2000), Logical
Form: From GB to Minimalism (Blackwell, 1995), and As Time
Goes By: Tense and Universal Grammar (1994).