From Word to Sentence
A First Course in Syntax
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-631-20107-6 (ISBN)
Description
This is a textbook for undergraduate syntax courses and for beginning students in graduate programs. David Pesetsky presents syntax as a scientific enterprise of theory building and discovery. He sets syntax in the wider context of cognitive and brain science and takes its discussion from a variety of methodologies and disciplines. The text focuses on the three main findings of modern syntax and is organized around the story of these three discoveries. It pays attention to the human side of syntactic inquiry. From Word to Sentence shows that syntax can be taught as an exciting narrative of scientific discovery.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 171 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-631-20107-6 (9780631201076)
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Content
General Introduction. > Part I: Meta-Ethics: The status of ethics: > >1. Moral Realism: Michael Smith (Australian National University). >2. Relativism: Simon Blackburn (University of North Carolina). What grounds ethical claims? >3. Divine Command Theory: Philip L. Quinn (University of Notre Dame). >4. Naturalism: James Rachels (University of Alabama at Birmingham). >5. Moral Intuition: Jeff McMahan (University of Illinois). Against ethical theory. >6. The End of Ethics: John D. Caputo (Villanova University). Psychology and ethics. >7. Psychological Egoism: Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin). >8. Moral Psychology: Laurence Thomas (Syracuse University). > Part II: Normative Ethics: Consequentialism: > >9. Act-Utilitarianism: R. G. Frey (Bowling Green State University). >10. Rule-Consequentialism: Brad Hooker (University of Reading). Deontology. >11. Nonconsequentialism: F. M. Kamm (New York University). >12. Kantianism: Thomas E. Hill, Jr. (University of North Carolina). >13. Contractarianism: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (University of North Carolina). >14. Intuitionism: David McNaughton (University of Keele). >15. Rights: L. W. Sumner (University of Toronto). >16. Libertarianism: Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo). Alternative views. >17. Virtue Ethics: Michael Slote (University of Maryland). >18. Feminist Ethics: Alison M. Jaggar (University of Colorado). >19. Continental Ethics: William R. Schroeder (University of Illinois). >20. Pragmatic Ethics: Hugh LaFollette (East Tennessee State University). >21. Toward Reconciliation in Ethics: James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame). >Index.