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

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

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John A. Goldsmith and Bernard Laks

Instantiates

• Battle in the mind fields

Publication

• Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2019

Copyright

• ©2019

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

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on1028911582

Dimensions

24 cm

Extent

xix, 725 pages

Isbn

9780226550800

Lccn

2018037456

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations, (some color)

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u1093009