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A collection of philosophical essays in honour of Noam Chomsky's 60th birthday, designed to reflect the breadth of Chomsky's philosophical and linguistic thought. Among topics discussed are the nature of semantic theory, the modular organization of the mind and logical form.

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Why should the mind be modular?, Jerry A. Fodor; meaning and the mental - the problem of semantics after Chomsky, Norbert Hornstein; logical form and linguistic theory, Jaako Hintikka; types and tokens in linguistics, Sylvian Bromberger; how not to become so confused about linguistics, Alexander George; when is a grammar psychologically real?, Christopher Peacocke; tacit knowledge and subdoxastic states, Martin Davies; knowledge of reference, James Higginbotham; wherein is language social?, Tyler Burge; language and communication, Michael Dummett; model theory and the "Factuality of Semantics", Hilary Putnam; Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations and the central project of theoretical linguistics, Crispin Wright.

Reflections on Chomsky

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 06/12/1990
      ISBN13: 9780631179191, 978-0631179191
      ISBN10: 0631179194
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A collection of philosophical essays in honour of Noam Chomsky's 60th birthday, designed to reflect the breadth of Chomsky's philosophical and linguistic thought. Among topics discussed are the nature of semantic theory, the modular organization of the mind and logical form.

      Table of Contents
      Why should the mind be modular?, Jerry A. Fodor; meaning and the mental - the problem of semantics after Chomsky, Norbert Hornstein; logical form and linguistic theory, Jaako Hintikka; types and tokens in linguistics, Sylvian Bromberger; how not to become so confused about linguistics, Alexander George; when is a grammar psychologically real?, Christopher Peacocke; tacit knowledge and subdoxastic states, Martin Davies; knowledge of reference, James Higginbotham; wherein is language social?, Tyler Burge; language and communication, Michael Dummett; model theory and the "Factuality of Semantics", Hilary Putnam; Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations and the central project of theoretical linguistics, Crispin Wright.

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