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Index
Introduction
Part I The science of language and mind
1 Language, function, communication: language and the use of language
2 On a formal theory of language and its accommodation to biology; the distinctive nature of human concepts
3 Representation and computation
4 More on human concepts
5 Reflections on the study of language
6 Parameters, canalization, innateness, Universal Grammar
7 Development, master/control genes, etc.
8 Perfection and design (interview 20 January 2009)
9 Universal Grammar and simplicity
10 On the intellectual ailments of some scientists
11 The place of language in the mind
12 Chomsky's intellectual contributions
13 Simplicity and its role in Chomsky's work
14 Chomsky and Nelson Goodman
Part II Human nature and its study
15 Chomsky on human nature and human understanding
16 Human nature and evolution: thoughts on sociobiology and evolutionary psychology
17 Human nature again
18 Morality and universalization
19 Optimism and grounds for it
20 Language, agency, common sense, and science
21 Philosophers and their roles
22 Biophysical limitations on understanding
23 Epistemology and biological limits
24 Studies of mind and behavior and their limitations
25 Linguistics and politics
Appendices
I I-concepts, I-beliefs, and I-language
II The several uses of “function”
III On what is distinctive about human nature (and how to deal with the distinction)
IV Chomsky on natural science
V Of concepts and misguided theories of them, and why human concepts are unique
VI Semantics and how to do it
VII Hierarchy, structure, domination, c-command, etc.
VIII Variation, parameters, and canalization
IX Simplicity
X Hume on the missing shade of blue and related matters
XI Syntax, semantics, pragmatics, non-Chomskyan and Chomskyan
XII An internalist picture of how concepts ‘work’
Commentaries
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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