Battle in the mind fields /

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Author / Creator:Goldsmith, John A., 1951- author.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Description:1 online resource (xix, 725 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
Subject:Linguistics -- Philosophy.
Philosophy, Modern.
Linguistics -- Philosophy.
Philosophy, Modern.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11781490
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Other authors / contributors:Laks, Bernard., author.
ISBN:9780226550947
022655094X
9780226550800
022655080X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on May 28, 2020).
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.
Other form:Print version: Goldsmith, John A. Battle in the Mind Fields. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2019 9780226550800
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Summary:"We frequently see one idea appear in one discipline as if it were new, when it migrated from another discipline, like a mole that had dug under a fence and popped up on the other side." <br> <br> Taking note of this phenomenon, John Goldsmith and Bernard Laks embark on a uniquely interdisciplinary history of the genesis of linguistics, from nineteenth-century currents of thought in the mind sciences through to the origins of structuralism and the ruptures, both political and intellectual, in the years leading up to World War II. Seeking to explain where contemporary ideas in linguistics come from and how they have been justified, Battle in the Mind Fields investigates the porous interplay of concepts between psychology, philosophy, mathematical logic, and linguistics. Goldsmith and Laks trace theories of thought, self-consciousness, and language from the machine age obsession with mind and matter to the development of analytic philosophy, behaviorism, Gestalt psychology, positivism, and structural linguistics, emphasizing throughout the synthesis and continuity that has brought about progress in our understanding of the human mind. Arguing that it is impossible to understand the history of any of these fields in isolation, Goldsmith and Laks suggest that the ruptures between them arose chiefly from social and institutional circumstances rather than a fundamental disparity of ideas. <br>
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 725 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226550947
022655094X
9780226550800
022655080X