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Language, Science, and Structure: A Journey into the Philosophy of Linguistics [Hardback]

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  • Izdošanas datums: 14-Jun-2023
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 019765309X
  • ISBN-13: 9780197653098
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 256 pages, height x width x depth: 163x229x43 mm, weight: 476 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 14-Jun-2023
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 019765309X
  • ISBN-13: 9780197653098
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What is a language? What do scientific grammars tell us about the structure of individual languages and human language in general? What kind of science is linguistics? These and other questions are the subject of Ryan M. Nefdt's Language, Science, and Structure.

Linguistics presents a unique and challenging subject matter for the philosophy of science. As a special science, its formalisation and naturalisation inspired what many consider to be a scientific revolution in the study of mind and language. Yet radical internal theory change, multiple competing frameworks, and issues of modelling and realism have largely gone unaddressed in the field. Nefdt develops a structural realist perspective on the philosophy of linguistics which aims to confront the aforementioned topics in new ways while expanding the outlook toward new scientific connections and novel philosophical insights. On this view, languages are real patterns which emerge from complex biological systems. Nefdt's exploration of this novel view will be especially valuable to those working in formal and computational linguistics, cognitive science, and the philosophies of science, mathematics, and language.

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A impressive achievement. Integrating work in the philosophy of science with wide-ranging knowledge of linguistic theory and contemporary cognitive science, this book provides both an evaluation of traditional debates within the philosophy of linguistics as well as a proposal for how it ought to be done in the future... This is a highly engaging book, rich with insight and packed with empirical and conceptual detail. Those working in philosophy of linguistics must read it, those in other areas merely should. * Gabriel Dupre, Philosophical Quarterly * Overall, Nefdt's book is an impressive tour de force, which will hopefully stimulate more interest in linguistics from philosophers of science. From a linguistic perspective, the book offers some conciliation against the apparent chaos of competing formalisms, but, more importantly, the reconceptualization of the subject matter could inform novel, and less isolationist, research programs in the field. * Adam James Ross Tallman, Philosophy of Science * Language, Science, and Structure by Ryan Nefdt mounts an impressive and noveldefense of a type of structuralism about both languages and linguistic entities likewords. * David Liebesman, De Gruyter *

Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction
1(13)
1.1 The Philosophy of Linguistics
2(2)
1.2 Generative and Non-Generative Frameworks
4(3)
1.3 Structures and Structuralisms
7(3)
1.4 A Guide to the Book
10(4)
2 Old Landscapes, New Maps
14(20)
2.1 What Is a Language, Anyway?
16(3)
2.2 Object-Oriented Accounts
19(7)
2.2.1 P-languages
21(2)
2.2.2 Devitt's Linguistic Conception
23(3)
2.3 State and Network accounts
26(8)
2.3.1 Chomsky and I-languages
26(4)
2.3.2 Inferentialism and Sociolinguistics
30(4)
3 The Many and the None
34(15)
3.1 Anti-realist Accounts
34(5)
3.1.1 Rey on Intentional Inexistence
34(2)
3.1.2 A Nice Derangement of Dynamic Lexica
36(3)
3.2 Why I Am Not a Pluralist
39(6)
3.2.1 Santana's Union
39(1)
3.2.2 Stainton's Intersection
40(5)
3.3 No Country for Clear Resolutions
45(4)
4 Language and Structure
49(31)
4.1 Moderate Naturalism
50(7)
4.1.1 What is Naturalism?
50(5)
4.1.2 A Very Special Science
55(2)
4.2 Languages as Real Patterns
57(13)
4.2.1 Dennett's Insight
57(2)
4.2.2 Formal Patterns
59(5)
4.2.3 Real Patterns Revisited
64(6)
4.3 Grammars as Compression Algorithms
70(10)
5 Linguistic Patterns and Biological Systems
80(16)
5.1 Biolinguistics and Biology
81(3)
5.2 Unbanishing the `Linguistic Community'
84(8)
5.3 A Note on Acquisition
92(4)
6 A Case Study
96(19)
6.1 The Naive Picture and Three Naturalistic Desiderata
96(3)
6.2 Constructions and Constraints
99(5)
6.3 A Structural Approach to Linguistic Entities
104(11)
6.3.1 Linguistic Structures, Again
106(2)
6.3.2 Words as Positions-in-Real Patterns
108(6)
6.3.3 Conclusion
114(1)
7 Structural Realism and the Science of Linguistics
115(31)
7.1 The Aim and Scope
115(3)
7.1.1 The Challenge
117(1)
7.2 Linguistic Theory Change
118(9)
7.2.1 From Phrase Structure to Phase Structure
120(7)
7.3 Structural Realism in Generative Linguistics
127(11)
7.3.1 Structure and Invariance
133(5)
7.4 The Problem of Multiple Grammars
138(8)
7.4.1 Multiple Models Idealisation
142(2)
7.4.2 Multiple Grammars and Multiple Reductions
144(2)
8 Language at the Interface
146(25)
8.1 A Note on Complex Systems
147(3)
8.2 Levels of Abstraction
150(3)
8.3 The Proposal
153(10)
8.4 Semantic Metastructuralism
163(8)
9 Language and Cognitive Science
171(26)
9.1 The Dilemma
171(1)
9.2 The Study of Mind in Language
172(8)
9.2.1 A Short History of Mentalism in Linguistics
172(2)
9.2.2 The Inception of Cognitive Science
174(5)
9.2.3 Language, Representationalism, Computationalism
179(1)
9.3 Intersection, Integration, and Architecture
180(12)
9.3.1 Lessons from Systems Biology, Again
182(4)
9.3.2 The Case for Language at the Intersection
186(6)
9.4 Unifying Cognitive Structures
192(5)
10 Conclusion
197(4)
Notes 201(18)
Bibliography 219(16)
Index 235
Ryan M. Nefdt is a philosopher of science who works on issues in linguistics, cognitive science, and AI at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of St Andrews, an MSc in Logic from the University of Amsterdam and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Cape Town. He has held research positions at various institutions such as MIT, Pittsburgh, Edinburgh, Minnesota, Yale, and Michigan and is published in numerous journals including Linguistics & Philosophy, Mind & Language, Biology & Philosophy, Synthese, Philosophy Compass, and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.