Battle in the Mind Fields
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Chapter 1: Battle in the Mind Fields
In the Beginning
Soft Mentalism, Hard Mentalism
Liberation Moments
Our Kind of Science
The World of Ideas and the World of Social Relations
Generations
Authority
Group Identity
Ideology
Jehovah’s Problem and Noah’s Solution
Credit Problem and Heroes
Mind and Materialism
Conclusions
Chapter 2: The Nineteenth Century and Language
Deep Time
Linguistics
Chapter 3: Philosophy and Logic in the Nineteenth Century
Logic: Boole, Frege, Russell
Psychology Comes to the New World
Psychology in France
The Unity of Mankind—and the Differentiation of Types of Humans
The Era of Machines
Moving On
John B. Watson and Behaviorism
The Second Generation of Behaviorists
Gestalt Psychology
The Period Comes to a Close
Chapter 6: American Linguistics, 1900–1940
Edward Sapir
The Phoneme
Leonard Bloomfield
Sapir and Bloomfield
The Creation of Linguistics as a Profession
Chapter 7: Philosophy, 1900–1940
Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Logical Positivism, Logical Empiricism
Conclusions
Chapter 8: Logic, 1900–1940
Three Approaches to the Philosophy of Mathematics
The Chrome Machine of Logic
The Logicians’ Grammar
Conclusions
Chapter 9: European Structuralism, 1920–1940
Nikolai Trubetzkoy
Roman Jakobson
Structuralism and the Prague Linguistic Circle
Phonology
Death, War, and Pestilence
Chapter 10: Conclusions and Prospects
Midnight in the Century
Guideposts
Prospects
Conclusions
Notes
References
Index
History: History of Ideas
Language and Linguistics: General Language and Linguistics
Philosophy: Logic and Philosophy of Language
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