诺姆·乔姆斯基：我们是什么样的生物？ What Kind of Creatures Are We?

基本信息

Series:Columbia Themes in Philosophy

Format:Paperback / softback 200 pages

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Imprint:Columbia University Press

ISBN:9780231175975

Published:18 Sep 2018

Weight:262g

Dimensions:188 x 148 x 15 (mm)

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书籍简介

诺姆·乔姆斯基是现代语言学的创始人、认知科学领域的创始人之一，也许是我们这个时代受追捧的政治理论家和评论家，他被广泛地推崇和敬仰。在这些讲座中，他展示了他一生对这三个研究领域的哲学思考，他为这些研究领域贡献了半个多世纪。

乔姆斯基用清晰、准确和非技术性的语言阐述了语言研究五十年来的科学发展，概述了他的工作对语言起源、语言与思想的密切关系及其最终的生物学基础的影响。他阐述和批评了许多替代理论，例如那些强调语言的社会、交流和指称方面的理论。乔姆斯基回顾了关于语言的新发现如何克服过去看似非常成问题的假设。他还根据科学史、哲学反思和当前理解，研究了人类认知能力的明显范围和局限性，以及人类思维可以认真研究的内容。从语言和思维到社会和政治，他最后深入探索并哲学辩护了他所描述的“自由社会主义”的立场，追溯了它与无政府主义和约翰·杜威的思想，甚至与马克思和穆勒的思想的联系，展示了它的概念从我们的历史过去发展而来，与当前事务有着密切的关系。

Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas of research, to which he has contributed for over half a century.

In clear, precise, and nontechnical language, Chomsky elaborates on fifty years of scientific development in the study of language, sketching how his own work has implications for the origins of language, the close relations that language bears to thought, and its eventual biological basis. He expounds and criticizes many alternative theories, such as those that emphasize the social, the communicative, and the referential aspects of language. Chomsky reviews how new discoveries about language overcome what seemed to be highly problematic assumptions in the past. He also investigates the apparent scope and limits of human cognitive capacities and what the human mind can seriously investigate, in the light of history of science and philosophical reflection and current understanding. Moving from language and mind to society and politics, he concludes with a searching exploration and philosophical defense of a position he describes as "libertarian socialism," tracing its links to anarchism and the ideas of John Dewey and even to the ideas of Marx and Mill, demonstrating its conceptual growth out of our historical past and urgent relation to matters of the present.

作者简介

诺姆·乔姆斯基是麻省理工学院语言学和哲学系名誉教授，亚利桑那大学语言学荣誉教授和环境与社会公正项目阿格尼丝·内尔姆斯·豪里讲席教授。他著有一百多本书，包括《语言科学》（与詹姆斯·麦吉尔夫雷合著，2012 年）和《美国梦安魂曲》（2017 年）。

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. He is the author of more than one hundred books, including The Science of Language (with James McGilvray, 2012) and Requiem for the American Dream (2017).