Noam Chomsky on Language Evolution and Semantic Internalism | Philosophical Trials #14
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- Noam Chomsky has been described as "the father of modern linguistics". He is one of the leading public intellectuals of the world, having authored over 100 books. Chomsky has made seminal contributions to multiple fields, including Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science. At the moment, he is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Conversation Outline:
00:00 Intro
00:37 How did you manage to be so productive?
01:07 What got you introduced to Linguistics and Philosophy?
02:47 What were courses like Syntax back in the day before you revolutionised the field?
04:42 What makes human languages different than other animal communication systems?
08:12 The difference between your view on the evolution of language and Steven Pinker’s view
15:50 The human language faculty
20:18 Truth-Conditional Semantics
30:49 Semantic Internalism versus Externalism
36:08 Truth, Public Languages, and I-Languages
38:55 What is truth?
40:18 Paradoxes of truth and vagueness
41:44 Zeno’s Paradox
45:31 Vagueness and The Sorites Paradox
50:47 The cognitive relationships between mathematical and linguistic abilities
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Conversation Outline:
00:00 Intro
00:37 How did you manage to be so productive?
01:07 What got you introduced to Linguistics and Philosophy?
02:47 What were courses like Syntax back in the day before you revolutionised the field?
04:42 What makes human languages different than other animal communication systems?
08:12 The difference between your view on the evolution of language and Steven Pinker’s view
15:50 The human language faculty
20:18 Truth-Conditional Semantics
30:49 Semantic Internalism versus Externalism
36:08 Truth, Public Languages, and I-Languages
38:55 What is truth?
40:18 Paradoxes of truth and vagueness
41:44 Zeno’s Paradox
45:31 Vagueness and The Sorites Paradox
50:47 The cognitive relationships between mathematical and linguistic abilities
Enjoy!
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P.S. I apologise in for the occasional audio problems, they were beyond my control :( At 13:44, Prof. Chomsky's connection was lost for a few seconds. He told me in private that the argument he was making was along the following lines:
"Modern humans appeared 2-300,000 years ago. Prior to their appearance, there are no indications in the archaeological record of any significant symbolic activity. Genomic evidence shows that the small groups of humans began to separate at least by about 125-150,000 years ago. Faculty of Language is shared in all surviving groups as far as is known, other cognitive capacities as well. Hence presumably all in place before separation. Shortly after there is rich symbolic activity, more complex societies, etc. All numbers are evolutionary time, a flick of an eye.That suggests that the language-thought amalgam probably appeared along with modern humans, and hasn't changed since. Then comes plausible scenarios for language evolution"
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Just found your channel and watched 2 interviews - I've subscribed, very nice interviews! Thank you so much 😊
Enjoyed the interview very much. Consider part 2
Thanks, I will!
Good discussion, i dont understand half of it yet but i love it
Thanks!
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Thank you!! I’m very glad you like it.
wow noam chomsky! thanks for making this available! when was it recorded?
Hello, it was recorded last week!
The sound level is too low. Great interview otherwise.
he is so knowledgeable... you feel that listening to him is sacrilege 😅😅😅
Does the theory of truth-conditional semantics justify a lie?
How would that work?
The notion of truth should presuppose an absolute veracity. If it is conditional depending on semantics it can be manipulated into a convenient lie
@@sophiamanukova2721 TCS cannot manipulate meanings and does not say that truth depends on semantics-that should answer your original question in the negative.
In this perspective on semantics, the meaning of a sentence is (or is reducible to) its truth-conditions, so truth is the primary notion, not meaning.
What annoys me about intellectuals like Chomsky, is that even at their intellectual level, they still want to compete of what is the primary function of something like language. Language involves thinking. Without thinking, there would be no language. However, human beings are a social species, and we wouldn't survive without some form of communication, be it language or otherwise. These things go together like an organism and it's environment. I wish he actually spent his early years doing something more valuable, than arguing useless things, in my opinion. What a waste of an amazing intellect.
>we need language to survive
>studying language is a waste of time
???
@@diedoktorfrom your comment I can only conclude that you didn’t listen to the whole interview. Chomsky did touch on that notion. He described it in more detail in other interviews and presentations.
@@tomschneider7555 I was responding to the other person saying it's a waste of time to study language. It's obviously worth understanding language considering how important it is.