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Battle in the Mind Fields

By: Goldsmith, John AContributor(s): Laks, BernardMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago University of Chicago Press, 2019Description: 1 online resource (747 pages)ISBN: 9780226550947; 022655094XSubject(s): Linguistics -- Philosophy | Philosophy, Modern | Linguistics -- Philosophy | Philosophy, Modern | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & ComparativeGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks | Electronic books. | Electronic books. DDC classification: 410.9 LOC classification: P33Online resources: EBSCOhost
Contents:
Intro; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Battle in the Mind Fields; In the Beginning; Soft Mentalism, Hard Mentalism; Liberation Moments; Our Kind of Science; The World of Ideas and the World of Social Relations; 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; Introduction: History, Typology, Structuralism; Deep Time; Linguistics; Chapter 3. Philosophy and Logic in the Nineteenth Century; Philosophy; Logic: Boole, Frege, Russell
Chapter 4. The Mind Has a Body: Psychology and Intelligent Machines in the Nineteenth CenturyGermany, the Homeland of Psychology in the Nineteenth Century; 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; Gestalt Psychology; The Period Comes to a Close; Chapter 6. American Linguistics, 1900-1940; Early American Anthropology; Edward Sapir; The Phoneme
Leonard BloomfieldSapir and Bloomfield; The Creation of Linguistics as a Profession; 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; 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. Conclusions and Prospects
Midnight in the CenturyGuideposts; Prospects; Conclusions; Notes; References; Index
Summary: This work is a study of linguistics and its neighbouring disciplines - psychology, logic, and philosophy - from ca. 1840 up until 1940 and the outbreak of World War II, that aims to give the reader an entirely new sense of where these disciplines came from and what their impact has been on the way we think about language and thought today.
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Intro; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Battle in the Mind Fields; In the Beginning; Soft Mentalism, Hard Mentalism; Liberation Moments; Our Kind of Science; The World of Ideas and the World of Social Relations; 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; Introduction: History, Typology, Structuralism; Deep Time; Linguistics; Chapter 3. Philosophy and Logic in the Nineteenth Century; Philosophy; Logic: Boole, Frege, Russell

Chapter 4. The Mind Has a Body: Psychology and Intelligent Machines in the Nineteenth CenturyGermany, the Homeland of Psychology in the Nineteenth Century; 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; Gestalt Psychology; The Period Comes to a Close; Chapter 6. American Linguistics, 1900-1940; Early American Anthropology; Edward Sapir; The Phoneme

Leonard BloomfieldSapir and Bloomfield; The Creation of Linguistics as a Profession; 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; 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. Conclusions and Prospects

Midnight in the CenturyGuideposts; Prospects; Conclusions; Notes; References; Index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work is a study of linguistics and its neighbouring disciplines - psychology, logic, and philosophy - from ca. 1840 up until 1940 and the outbreak of World War II, that aims to give the reader an entirely new sense of where these disciplines came from and what their impact has been on the way we think about language and thought today.

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