عنوان

Battle in the mind fields /

(Number (ISBN

022655080X

(Number (ISBN

9780226550800

Erroneous ISBN

9780226550947

Title Proper

Battle in the mind fields /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

John A. Goldsmith and Bernard Laks.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2019

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xix, 725 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, (some color) ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

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

Text of Note

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

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Goldsmith, John A.,1951-

Laks, Bernard

Date of Transaction

20200822102525.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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