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Battle in the mind fields /

022655080X

9780226550800

9780226550947

Battle in the mind fields /

[Book]

John A. Goldsmith and Bernard Laks.

Chicago :

The University of Chicago Press,

2019.

©2019

xix, 725 pages :

illustrations, (some color) ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages [599]-713) and index.

Scholars often encounter ideas within a discipline that appear to be new but have in fact "migrated from another discipline, like a mole that dug under a fence and popped up on the other side." Taking note of this phenomenon, the authors embark on a uniquely interdisciplinary history of the genesis of linguistics, from nineteenth-century currents of thought in the mind sciences through the origins of structuralism and the political and intellectual divisions that arose in the years leading up to World War II. Seeking to explain where contemporary ideas in linguistics come from and how they have been justified, the book investigates the porous interplay of concepts between psychology, philosophy, mathematical logic, and linguistics. THe authors trace theories of thought, self-consciousness, and language from the machine-age obsession with mind and matter to the development of analytic philosophy, behaviorism, Gestalt psychology, positivism, and structural linguistics, always emphasizing the synthesis and continuity that have furthered our understanding of the human mind. Arguing that it is impossible to understand the history of any of these fields in isolation, the authors suggest that the ruptures between them arose chiefly from social and institutional circumstances, rather than a fundamental disparity of ideas.

Linguistics-- Philosophy.

Philosophy, Modern.

Linguistics-- Philosophy.

Linguistik

Philosophie

Philosophy, Modern.

Sprache

Sprachphilosophie

Goldsmith, John A.,1951-

Laks, Bernard

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