Language, Science, and Structure: A Journey into the Philosophy of Linguistics
Autor Ryan M. Nefdten Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 iun 2026
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780197653098
ISBN-10: 019765309X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 229 x 163 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 019765309X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 229 x 163 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
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.
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.
Language, Science, and Structure by Ryan Nefdt mounts an impressive and noveldefense of a type of structuralism about both languages and linguistic entities likewords.
The book can be recommended to linguists who are striving to obtain an insight into the foundational problems of their discipline as well as to philosophers of science interested in general principles of scientific inquiry. It can provide both groups with an at least partial understanding of why several decades ago linguistics seemed to be one of the driving forces of scientific progress in the human sciences, the social sciences, the cognitive sciences as well as the computer sciences; why this impact eroded over the years; and why the author's approach might be evaluated as an attempt to assign linguistics a substantive role in shaping our knowledge of language, the mind and the formal tools describing them.
..the book is a great success, introducing a fresh perspective on the study of language that future researchers will be compelled to consider.
Nefdt's aim to marry realism and the spirit of pluralism is exciting, and in a landscape of diversifying approaches in the language sciences promises to be a highly fruitful approach to natural language ontology. This work rightly deserves to be considered a central text in a broader move towards characterizing philosophy of linguistics by the lights of the philosophy of science. It ought to be read by linguists and philosophers alike.
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.
Language, Science, and Structure by Ryan Nefdt mounts an impressive and noveldefense of a type of structuralism about both languages and linguistic entities likewords.
The book can be recommended to linguists who are striving to obtain an insight into the foundational problems of their discipline as well as to philosophers of science interested in general principles of scientific inquiry. It can provide both groups with an at least partial understanding of why several decades ago linguistics seemed to be one of the driving forces of scientific progress in the human sciences, the social sciences, the cognitive sciences as well as the computer sciences; why this impact eroded over the years; and why the author's approach might be evaluated as an attempt to assign linguistics a substantive role in shaping our knowledge of language, the mind and the formal tools describing them.
..the book is a great success, introducing a fresh perspective on the study of language that future researchers will be compelled to consider.
Nefdt's aim to marry realism and the spirit of pluralism is exciting, and in a landscape of diversifying approaches in the language sciences promises to be a highly fruitful approach to natural language ontology. This work rightly deserves to be considered a central text in a broader move towards characterizing philosophy of linguistics by the lights of the philosophy of science. It ought to be read by linguists and philosophers alike.
Notă biografică
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.