The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky

by Edited by James McGilvray

• ISBN13: 9780521784313
• ISBN10: 052178431X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential thinkers of modern times. The most cited writer in the humanities, his work has revolutionized the field of linguistics, and has dominated many other disciplines including politics and the philosophy of mind and human nature. This Companion brings together a team of leading linguists, philosophers, cognitive scientists and political theorists to consolidate the disparate strands of Chomsky's thought into one accessible volume and an essential guide to one of the leading intellectual figures of our time.

Table of Contents

The contributors	vii
Introduction	1	(20)
JAMES McGILVRAY
Part I Chomsky on the human language
1 Chomsky's science of language	21	(21)
NEIL SMITH
2 Plato's Problem, UG, and the language organ	42	(18)
DAVID LIGHTFOOT
3 Grammar, levels, and biology	60	(24)
HOWARD LASNIK
4 How the brain begets language	84	(18)
LAURA-ANN PETITTO
5 Chomsky and Halle's revolution in phonology	102	(21)
B. ELAN DRESHER
6 Universal aspects of word learning	123	(22)
LILA GLEITMAN AND CYNTHIA FISHER
Part II Chomsky on the human mind
7 Empiricism and rationalism as research strategies	145	(19)
NORBERT HORNSTEIN
8 Innate ideas	164	(17)
PAUL PIETROSKI AND STEPHEN CRAIN
9 Mind, language, and the limits of inquiry	181	(23)
AKEEL BILGRAMI AND CAROL ROVANE
10 Meaning and creativity	204	(21)
JAMES McGILVRAY
Part III Chomsky on values and politics
11 Market values and libertarian socialist values	225	(15)
MILAN RAI
12 The individual, the state, and the corporation	240	(20)
JAMES WILSON
13 Noam Chomsky: the struggle continues	260	(20)
IRENE GENDZIER
14 The responsibility of the intellectual	280	(15)
JEAN BRICMONT
Notes	295	(18)
References	313	(18)
Index	331