V61.0048 Linguistics as Cognitive Science
Prof. Alec Marantz
Spring 2009
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor (note: this is a
graduate/advanced undergraduate course)
Counts as a linguistics elective.
Course Description
Guest lectures from leading thinkers of both the older and newer generations of cognitive scientists!!
This course examines the place of Linguistics within Cognitive Science from multiple perspectives. Foundational questions for a science of linguistics will be addressed both from within linguistics and from philosophy and psychology. Issues include the nature of the evidence for constructing grammars, the interpretation of grammatical rules as cognitive or neural operations, the significance of neo-behaviorist approaches to language and computational modeling for a cognitive theory of language, and the connection between linguistic theory and genetics. This semester, the actual, motivated, and potential influence of linguistics on other disciplines will be explored.
Guest lecturers for this term include Emmanuel Chemla, and Ansgar Endress from psychology and Jerry Fodor, Paul Pietroski, Stephen Neale, and Paul Horwich from Philosophy.
Mondays, 2-4:45, Silver 206
Full schedule of guest lectures to be posted by January 19th. Please consider taking part, either as a registered student or a regular or irregular auditor.
Last Modified: Januar 12, 2009