Ignorance of Language
Author:   Michael Devitt (City University of New York)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199250974


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   10 April 2008
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Author:   Michael Devitt (City University of New York)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.495kg
ISBN:  

9780199250974


ISBN 10:   0199250979
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   10 April 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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I. Linguistics is not Psychology 1: Introduction 2: A grammar as a theory of linguistic reality II. Positions on Psychological Reality 3: Some possible positions on psychological reality 4: Some actual postions on psychological reality III. 'Philosophical' Arguments for the Representational Thesis 5: The Rejection of Behaviourism 6: Folk Psychology 7: Intuitions IV. The Relation of Language to Thought 8: Thought before language 9: A case for the psychological reality of language 10: Thought and the language faculty V. Language Use and Acquisition 11: Language use 12: Language acquisition

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<br> A wealth of careful distinctions and detailed arguments...an example of how serious philosophy of a very technical area may be conducted with thoroughness, lucidity, and elegance. --John Collins, Mind Journal<br>


<br> A wealth of careful distinctions and detailed arguments...an example of how serious philosophy of a very technical area may be conducted with thoroughness, lucidity, and elegance. --John Collins, Mind Journal<p><br>


A wealth of careful distinctions and detailed arguments...an example of how serious philosophy of a very technical area may be conducted with thoroughness, lucidity, and elegance. --John Collins, Mind Journal<br>


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Michael Devitt is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He taught at the University of Sydney from 1971 until 1987 and the University of Maryland from 1988 to 1999. His main research interests are in the philosophy of language and mind, and in issues of realism. He is the author of Designation (Columbia, 1981), Realism and Truth (2nd edn with Afterword, Princeton, 1997), Coming to Our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism (Cambridge, 1996), and Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (with Kim Sterelny, 2nd edn, MIT, 1999).

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