Language and Mind

Language and Mind
1968 AD published

From the preface:

The general shift of perspective is sometimes called the “cognitive revolu-tion” of the 1950s. However, for reasons discussed in the early essays that follow,I think it might more properly be considered a renewal and further developmentof the cognitive revolution of the seventeenth century. From the 1950s, manytraditional questions were revived – regrettably, without acquaintance with thetradition, which had been largely forgotten or misrepresented. Also revived wasthe view that had been crystallizing through the eighteenth century that proper-ties “termed mental” are the result of “such an organical structure as that of thebrain” (chemist–philosopher Joseph Priestley). This development of “Locke’ssuggestion,” as it is called in the scholarly literature, was a natural, virtuallyinevitable, concomitant of the Newtonian revolution, which effectively disman-tled the only significant notion of “body” or “physical.” The basic conclusionwas well understood by the nineteenth-century. Darwin asked rhetorically why“thought, being a secretion of the brain,” should be considered “more wonder-ful than gravity, a property of matter.”

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