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Author:   Wolfram Hinzen (, Professor of Philosophy, University of Durham)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9780199289257

ISBN 10:   0199289255
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   23 February 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Part I: Naturally Human 1: Introduction 1.1: Humans as natural objects 1.2: The study of human nature 1.3: Human design 1.4: The fate of human nature in the twentieth century 2: Against metaphysical naturalism 2.1: From methodological to metaphysical naturalism 2.2: Rationalist method from Galileo to Chomsky 2.3: Double standards 3: Biological internalism 3.1: Biology before unification 3.2: Mind as function: A critique 3.3: God or natural selection or . . . ? 3.4: 3.4 Epilogue on explanation and necessity Part II: Deducing Variation 4: Prior to function 4.1: Language growth 4.2: Language and communication 4.3: Language as a social construct 5: Beyond the autonomy of syntax 5.1: What is syntax? 5.2: Explanation in linguistic theory 5.3: Human phrase structure 5.4: Transforming the phrase 5.5: Why is there movement? 5.6: The proper interpretation of LF/SEM Part III: Rational Mind 6: Good Design! 6.1: Phases and cascades: Beyond LF 6.2: Epistemology for mental organs Conclusions References Index

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Overall, Hinzen has done a tremendous job of blending many of the leading ideas of a range of disciplines into an always thoughtful and, to my mind, largely convincing picture of where our best science of language and mind is and should be going * John Collins, Journal of Linguistics *

Overall, Hinzen has done a tremendous job of blending many of the leading ideas of a range of disciplines into an always thoughtful and, to my mind, largely convincing picture of where our best science of language and mind is and should be going John Collins, Journal of Linguistics

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Wolfram Hinzen is a senior lecturer at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation and a member of the Cognitive Science Center at the University of Amsterdam. He was previously at the Institute for Philosophy, University of Regensburg. He is the co-editor with Hans Rott of Belief and Meaning: Essays at the Interface (Berlin: Hänsel-Hohenhausen, 2002) and the author of The Semantic Foundations of Anti-Realism (Berlin: Logos 1998). His next book An Essay on Naming and Truth will be published by OUP in October 2006.

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