Chomsky Notebook / / ed. by Jean Bricmont, Julie Franck.

Noam Chomsky applies a rational, scientific approach to disciplines as diverse as linguistics, ethics, and politics. His best-known innovations involve a groundbreaking theory of generative grammar, the revolution it initiated in cognitive science, and a radical encounter with political theory and p...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Columbia Themes in Philosophy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 6 illus., 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PART I. CHOMSKY
  • 1. The Mysteries of Nature: How Deeply Hidden?
  • 2. The Great Soul of Power: Said Memorial Lecture
  • PART II. INTRODUCTIONS
  • 3. Chomsky, France, Reason, Power
  • 4. An Interview with Noam Chomsky
  • PART III. LINGUISTIC THEORY AND LANGUAGE PROCESSES
  • 5. The Varying Aims of Linguistic Theory
  • 6. Language, Thought, and Reality After Chomsky
  • 7. Generative Syntax in the Brain
  • PART IV. COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
  • 8. Learning Organs
  • 9. Innateness, Choice, and Language
  • 10. The Scope and Limits of Chomsky's Naturalism
  • PART V. CHOMSKY AND THE INTELLIGENTSIA
  • 11. Conspiracy: When Journalists (and Their Favorites) Misrepresent the Critical Analysis of the Media
  • 12. Noam Chomsky and the University
  • 13. The Practice of Intellectual Self-Defense in the University
  • 14. Chomsky, Faurisson, and Vidal-Naquet
  • 15. Chomsky and Bourdieu: A Missed Encounter
  • PART VI. POLITICS: THEORY AND PRACTICE
  • 16. Chomsky in France: The Resistance to Pragmatic Anti-Authoritarianism
  • 17. Testimony
  • 18. Truth, Balance, and Freedom
  • Contributors