Louise M. Antony & Norbert Hornstein 
Chomsky and His Critics [PDF ebook] 

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.

İçerik tablosu

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.

Yazar hakkında

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).