I argue that contemporary philosophy of language in the analytic tradition rests on two fundamentally wrong assumptions: empiricism and externalism. After I show why these two assumptions are incorrect, I turn my attention to biological rationalism. Biological rationalism—a research program inspired by the work of Noam Chomsky—is committed to nativism and internalism. I believe biological rationalism provides the best framework to achieve a genuine understanding of language. I try to show this by considering the biological rationalist answers to major problems in philosophy of language.Je soutiens que la philosophie du langage telle qu’élaborée dans la tradition analytique contemporaine repose sur deux hypothèses erronées: l’empirisme e...
Ce travail de thèse concerne la thèse de Chomsky selon laquelle la faculté de langage (aussi appelée...
Biolinguistics will have to face and resolve several problems before it can achieve a pivotal positi...
This essay reflects on the fact that as we learn more about the biological underpinnings of our lang...
In this dissertation, I defend the view that natural languages are concrete biopsychological phenome...
Abstract This paper is an attempt at exploring the possibility of reconciling the two interpretation...
1 Language: internal or external? Although language uncontroversially has internal, psychological di...
Two extreme and contrasting positions held currently by various researchers in language evolution ar...
This paper is an attempt at exploring the possibility of reconciling the two interpretations of biol...
Noam Chomsky (2005) proposed that a ‘third factor’, consisting of general principles and natural law...
Noam Chomsky (2005) proposed that a ‘third factor’, consisting of general principles and natural law...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in thi...
The paper traces some of the assumptions that have informed conservative naturalism in linguistic t...
The paper shows the inadequacy of the structuralist method with its climax in generative grammar met...
It is argued that the theoretical and conceptual tangle in which linguistics finds itself at the tur...
Ce travail de thèse concerne la thèse de Chomsky selon laquelle la faculté de langage (aussi appelée...
Biolinguistics will have to face and resolve several problems before it can achieve a pivotal positi...
This essay reflects on the fact that as we learn more about the biological underpinnings of our lang...
In this dissertation, I defend the view that natural languages are concrete biopsychological phenome...
Abstract This paper is an attempt at exploring the possibility of reconciling the two interpretation...
1 Language: internal or external? Although language uncontroversially has internal, psychological di...
Two extreme and contrasting positions held currently by various researchers in language evolution ar...
This paper is an attempt at exploring the possibility of reconciling the two interpretations of biol...
Noam Chomsky (2005) proposed that a ‘third factor’, consisting of general principles and natural law...
Noam Chomsky (2005) proposed that a ‘third factor’, consisting of general principles and natural law...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in thi...
The paper traces some of the assumptions that have informed conservative naturalism in linguistic t...
The paper shows the inadequacy of the structuralist method with its climax in generative grammar met...
It is argued that the theoretical and conceptual tangle in which linguistics finds itself at the tur...
Ce travail de thèse concerne la thèse de Chomsky selon laquelle la faculté de langage (aussi appelée...
Biolinguistics will have to face and resolve several problems before it can achieve a pivotal positi...
This essay reflects on the fact that as we learn more about the biological underpinnings of our lang...