In Search of a Language for the Mind-Brain
Can the Multiple Perspectives be Unified?
A part of the series The Dolphin (33) , and the subject area Linguistics
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Edited by
Ocke-Schwen Bohn,
Albert Gjedde and
Anjum P. Saleemi
With contributions by
Martin Atkinson,
Ocke-Schwen Bohn,
Noam Chomsky,
Albert Gjedde,
Steven Pinker,
Dominic Rainsford,
Anjum P. Saleemi,
John R. Searle,
Jamsheed Shorish and
Chris Sinha
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What is human nature? How is language related to thought - and should the connection be investigated socially or biologically? Is external reality coherent or fragmented? What, if any, are the foundations of rationality, and how trustworthy are they?
Such questions have bedevilled thinkers for millenia. Contemporary scholars have harnessed enormous resources to find answers, yet their inquiry is invariably constrained by the tunnel vision of academic specialisation.
This issue of The Dolphin seeks to establish common ground among the disciplines examining the mind-brain continuum. Among those meeting the editors' challenge to think outside the disciplinary box are Noam Chomsky, John Searle and Steven Pinker, as well as almost a dozen other important scholars from the fields of neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, literature, computer science and ethnography.
The implicit framework that results should help researchers in all fields locate the diversity of human knowing within a joint ontological perspective.
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