The Science of Language: Interviews with James McGilvray

Chomsky, Noam

ISBN 10: 1107016371 / ISBN 13: 9781107016378

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Science of Language: Interviews with James McGilvray
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107016371
• ISBN 13: 9781107016378
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Used-Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Linguistics

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Synopsis

Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential thinkers of our time, yet his views are often misunderstood. In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning language, human nature and politics. In dialogue with James McGilvray, Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Chomsky takes up a wide variety of topics – the nature of language, the philosophies of language and mind, morality and universality, science and common sense, and the evolution of language. McGilvray's extensive commentary helps make this incisive set of interviews accessible to a variety of readers. The volume is essential reading for those involved in the study of language and mind, as well as anyone with an interest in Chomsky's ideas.

About the Authors

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (retired) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

James McGilvray is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Montréal. He has written a general introduction to Chomsky's work (Chomsky, 1999) and edited and contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky (2005) and the second (2002) and third (2009) editions of Chomsky's seminal Cartesian Linguistics (Cambridge University Press). He has also published several articles on the philosophies of language and mind that defend in various ways the methods for the study of language and mind developed and endorsed by Chomsky and other internalist 'biolinguists'.