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Readership: Scholars and graduate students in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, and psychology. Is also designed to be used as a text in language and mind courses in departments of linguistics and philosophy.
Wolfram Hinzen, Professor of Philosophy, University of Durham
"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
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
