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Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.  \nFirst published 2005  \nReprinted 2005  \nPrinted in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge Typeface Times 10/12 pt. System LATEX2ε [tb]  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data  \nThe Cambridge companion to Chomsky / edited by James McGilvray.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nISBN 0 521 78013 6 (hardback)– ISBN 0 521 78431 X (paperback)  \n1. Chomsky, Noam. I. McGilvray, James A. (James Alasdair), 1942– P85.C47C36 2005  \n410􀀂 .92 – dc22 2004051104  \nISBN 0 521 78013 6 hardback ISBN 0 521 78431 X paperback  \nThe publisher has used its best endeavors to ensure that the URLs for external websites are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate.  \nCambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007  \nContents  \nPart I  \n1  \n2  \n3  \n4  \n5  \n6  \nPart II  \n7  \n8  \n9  \nThe contributors  \nIntroduction  \njames mc gilvray  \nChomsky on the human language  \nChomsky’s science of language neil smith  \nPlato’s Problem, UG, and the language organ david lightfoot  \nGrammar, levels, and biology howard las nik  \nHow the brain begets language laura-ann petit to  \nChomsky and Halle’s revolution in phonology  \nb . el an dres her  \nUniversal aspects of word learning  \nli la g lei tm an and cynthia fisher  \nChomsky on the human mind  \nEmpiricism and rationalism as research strategies norbert horn stein  \nInnate ideas  \npaul pietro ski and stephen crain Mind, language, and the limits of inquiry ak eel bilgrami and carol rovane  \npage vii  \n1  \n21  \n42  \n60  \n84  \n102  \n123  \n145  \n164  \n181  \nv  \nCambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007  \nvi Contents  \n10 Meaning and creativity 204  \njames mc gilvray  \nPart III Chomsky on values and politics  \n11 Market values and libertarian socialist values 225  \nmilan rai  \n12 The individual, the state, and the corporation 240  \njames wilson  \n13 Noam Chomsky: the struggle continues 260  \nirene g end zi er  \n14 The responsibility of the intellectual 280  \njean bricmont  \nNotes 295  \nReferences 313  \nIndex 331  \nCambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007  \nThe contributors  \nak eel bilgrami is Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He specializes in the philosophies of mind and language. His Self-Knowledge and Intentionality and The Moral Psychology of Identity are forthcoming.  \njean bricmont is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He co-authored with Alan Sokal the volume Fashionable Nonsense. He often writes and speaks on political topics.  \nstephen crain is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is primarily interested in issues of child language development – especially, recently, in children’s acquisition of semantic knowledge. 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