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Battle in the mind fields, John A. Goldsmith and Bernard Laks

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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
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
xix, 725 pages
Contents
  • Generations
  • Authority
  • Group identity
  • Ideology
  • Jehovah's problem and Noah's solution
  • Credit problem and heroes
  • Mind and materialism
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 2.
  • The nineteenth century and language:
  • Preface.
  • Introduction: history, typology, structuralism
  • Deep time
  • Linguistics
  • Chapter 3.
  • Philosophy and logic in nineteenth century:
  • Philosophy
  • Logic: Boole, Frege, Russell
  • Chapter 4.
  • The mind has a body: psychology and intelligent machines in the nineteenth century:
  • Germany, the homeland of psychology in the nineteenth century
  • Chapter 1.
  • Psychology comes to the new world
  • Psychology in France
  • The unity of mankind - and the differentiation of types of humans
  • The era of machines
  • Moving on
  • Chapter 5.
  • Psychology, 1900-1940:
  • Structuralism and functionalism
  • John B. Watson and behaviorism
  • The second generation of behaviorists
  • Battle in the mind fields:
  • Gestalt psychology
  • The period comes to a close
  • Chapter 6.
  • American linguistics, 1900-1940:
  • Early American anthropology
  • Edward Sapir
  • The phoneme
  • Leonard Bloomfield
  • Sapir and Bloomfield
  • The creation of linguistics as a profession
  • In the beginning
  • Chapter 7.
  • Philosophy, 1900-1940:
  • Edmund Husserl
  • Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Logical positivism, logical empiricism
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 8.
  • Logic, 1900-1940:
  • Three approaches to the philosophy of mathematics
  • The chrome machine of logic
  • Soft mentalism, hard mentalism
  • The logicians' grammar
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 9.
  • European structuralism, 1920-1940:
  • Nikolai Trubetzkoy
  • Roman Jakobson
  • Structuralism and the Prague linguistic circle
  • Phonology
  • Death, war, and pestilence
  • Chapter 10.
  • Liberation moments
  • Conclusions and prospects:
  • Midnight in the century
  • Guideposts
  • Prospects
  • Conclusions
  • Our kind of science
  • The world of ideas and the world of social relations
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9780226550800
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Battle in the mind fields
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Battle in the mind fields
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John A. Goldsmith and Bernard Laks
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Language
eng
Summary
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
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ICU/DLC
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1951-
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Goldsmith, John A.
Dewey number
410.9
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
P33
LC item number
.G65 2019
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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Laks, Bernard
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  • Linguistics
  • Philosophy, Modern
  • Linguistics
  • Philosophy, Modern
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specialized
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Battle in the mind fields, John A. Goldsmith and Bernard Laks
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Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [599]-713) and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Generations
  • Authority
  • Group identity
  • Ideology
  • Jehovah's problem and Noah's solution
  • Credit problem and heroes
  • Mind and materialism
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 2.
  • The nineteenth century and language:
  • Preface.
  • Introduction: history, typology, structuralism
  • Deep time
  • Linguistics
  • Chapter 3.
  • Philosophy and logic in nineteenth century:
  • Philosophy
  • Logic: Boole, Frege, Russell
  • Chapter 4.
  • The mind has a body: psychology and intelligent machines in the nineteenth century:
  • Germany, the homeland of psychology in the nineteenth century
  • Chapter 1.
  • Psychology comes to the new world
  • Psychology in France
  • The unity of mankind - and the differentiation of types of humans
  • The era of machines
  • Moving on
  • Chapter 5.
  • Psychology, 1900-1940:
  • Structuralism and functionalism
  • John B. Watson and behaviorism
  • The second generation of behaviorists
  • Battle in the mind fields:
  • Gestalt psychology
  • The period comes to a close
  • Chapter 6.
  • American linguistics, 1900-1940:
  • Early American anthropology
  • Edward Sapir
  • The phoneme
  • Leonard Bloomfield
  • Sapir and Bloomfield
  • The creation of linguistics as a profession
  • In the beginning
  • Chapter 7.
  • Philosophy, 1900-1940:
  • Edmund Husserl
  • Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Logical positivism, logical empiricism
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 8.
  • Logic, 1900-1940:
  • Three approaches to the philosophy of mathematics
  • The chrome machine of logic
  • Soft mentalism, hard mentalism
  • The logicians' grammar
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 9.
  • European structuralism, 1920-1940:
  • Nikolai Trubetzkoy
  • Roman Jakobson
  • Structuralism and the Prague linguistic circle
  • Phonology
  • Death, war, and pestilence
  • Chapter 10.
  • Liberation moments
  • Conclusions and prospects:
  • Midnight in the century
  • Guideposts
  • Prospects
  • Conclusions
  • Our kind of science
  • The world of ideas and the world of social relations
Control code
on1028911582
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xix, 725 pages
Isbn
9780226550800
Lccn
2018037456
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, (some color)
Label
Battle in the mind fields, John A. Goldsmith and Bernard Laks
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [599]-713) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Generations
  • Authority
  • Group identity
  • Ideology
  • Jehovah's problem and Noah's solution
  • Credit problem and heroes
  • Mind and materialism
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 2.
  • The nineteenth century and language:
  • Preface.
  • Introduction: history, typology, structuralism
  • Deep time
  • Linguistics
  • Chapter 3.
  • Philosophy and logic in nineteenth century:
  • Philosophy
  • Logic: Boole, Frege, Russell
  • Chapter 4.
  • The mind has a body: psychology and intelligent machines in the nineteenth century:
  • Germany, the homeland of psychology in the nineteenth century
  • Chapter 1.
  • Psychology comes to the new world
  • Psychology in France
  • The unity of mankind - and the differentiation of types of humans
  • The era of machines
  • Moving on
  • Chapter 5.
  • Psychology, 1900-1940:
  • Structuralism and functionalism
  • John B. Watson and behaviorism
  • The second generation of behaviorists
  • Battle in the mind fields:
  • Gestalt psychology
  • The period comes to a close
  • Chapter 6.
  • American linguistics, 1900-1940:
  • Early American anthropology
  • Edward Sapir
  • The phoneme
  • Leonard Bloomfield
  • Sapir and Bloomfield
  • The creation of linguistics as a profession
  • In the beginning
  • Chapter 7.
  • Philosophy, 1900-1940:
  • Edmund Husserl
  • Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Logical positivism, logical empiricism
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 8.
  • Logic, 1900-1940:
  • Three approaches to the philosophy of mathematics
  • The chrome machine of logic
  • Soft mentalism, hard mentalism
  • The logicians' grammar
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 9.
  • European structuralism, 1920-1940:
  • Nikolai Trubetzkoy
  • Roman Jakobson
  • Structuralism and the Prague linguistic circle
  • Phonology
  • Death, war, and pestilence
  • Chapter 10.
  • Liberation moments
  • Conclusions and prospects:
  • Midnight in the century
  • Guideposts
  • Prospects
  • Conclusions
  • Our kind of science
  • The world of ideas and the world of social relations
Control code
on1028911582
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xix, 725 pages
Isbn
9780226550800
Lccn
2018037456
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, (some color)

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