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Encounters in the Mind Fields
John Goldsmith
University of Chicago
April 2, 2015
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Today’s themes
A study in rupture and continuity
The mind sciences: linguistics, philosophy, psychology, logic
continuity and rupture within disciplines
intellectual: often remains tacit and implicitgenerational: natural forces leading to generational rupturefilial: advisor-student
across disciplines
Cross-fertilization: moles sneaking under the fencesSplitting of disciplines: psychology/philosophy; logic/philosophy;
geographically and politically
Americans going to Germany to study science until 1914Europeans coming to the US around 1933
Themes
Two Kinds of Not-Knowing: simple vs. meaningful
Jehovah and Noah
Cause and effect, teleology, and the meaning of the computer
Science anxiety as a way of life
Goal: intellectual liberation, both early and late
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Volume 1
1800 1850 1900 1940
2: 19th century 3: psychology
4: US structurallinguistics
5: HusserlViennaCircle
6: logic
7:Pragueschool
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Volume 1
1800 1850 1900 1940
2: 19th century
Deep time: geology
William Jones and Indo-European
Neogrammarians Whitney Saussure Baudouin
Kant Comte Mach
Helmholtz Wundt James Dewey
Boole Frege
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Jacob Grimm 1785-1863
Friedrich von Schlegel1772-1829 Wilhelm von Humboldt
1767-1835
First generation
Hermann Grassmann1809-1872
F. Max Müller1823-1900
William Dwight Whitney1827-1894
Rudolph von Roth1821-18
Albrecht Weber1825-1901
George Curtius1820-1885
August Schleicher1821-1868
Second generation
Jan Bauouin de Courtenay1845-1929
August Leskien1840-1916
Karl Brugmann1849-1919 Hermann Osthoff
1847-1909
Berthold Delbrück1842-1922 Hugo Schuchardt
1842-1927
Ferdinand de Saussure1857-1913
Third generation
Franz Bopp1791-1867
Maurice Bloomfield1855-1928
Hermann Paul1846-1921
Rasmus Rask1787-1832
OsthoffBrugmann
August Leskien1840-1916
Louis Morel
Georg Curtius1820-1885
August Schleicher1821-1868
Franz Bopp1791-1867
LeipzigLeipzig
GenevaG
enev
aLeipzig
Leip
zigGeneva
Gen
eva
Geneva: 1875-76Leipzig: 1876-78
Antoine Meillet1866-1936
Jerzy Kurylowicz1895-1978
William Dwight Whitney1827-1894
The Life
and G
rowth
of La
nguag
e
University of Berlinpsychology community
American psychologists
American psychologistsCarl Stumpf
Franz Brentano 1838-1917
Sigmund Freud
Christianvon Ehrenfels
WilliamJames
Hermann von Helmholtz1821-1894
Wilhelm Wundt1832-1920
Edward Titchener
James McKeen Cattell
Oswald K
1862-19Hugo von Munsterberg
G.Stanley Hall
James R. Angell
John Dewey
Hermann Lotze1817-1881
Ernst Mach1838-1816
Carl Stumpf1848-1936
Max Meyer1873-1967
Max Wertheimer1880-1943
Wolfgang Kohler Kurt Koffka1886-1941
Kurt Lewin1890-1947
Herbert S. Langfeld1879-1958
Volume 1
1800 1850 1900 1940
2: 19th century 3: psychology
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Franz Brentano1838-1917
Carl Stumpf 1848-1936
Alexius Meinong 1853-1920
Edmund Husserl 1859-1938
Anton Marty 1847-1914
Christian von Ehrenfels 1859-1932 Prague
Tomáŝ Masaryk1850-1937
Vilém Mathesius1882-1945
Ferdinand de Saussure1857-1913
Hermann Paul 1846-1921
Trubetzkoy1890-1938
Roman Jakobson1896-1938
Wilhelm Wundt1832-1920
Hermann Lotze1817-1881
E.H.Weber1798-1878
Leipzig
Gustav Fechner1801-187x
Leipzig
James McKeen Cattell1860-1944
von Münsterberg1863-1916
Ernst Mach1838-1916
United States
James R. Angell1869-1949
Herbert S. Langfeld1879-1958
Kurt Lewin1890-1947
Wolfgang Köhler1887-1967
Max Wertheimer1880-1943
Kurt Koffka1886-1941
Fritz Heider1896-1988
Ernst Cassirer1874-1945
Prague Circle
Sergei Karchevski1884-
Clark Hull1884-1952
Karl Lashley1890-1958
E.G.Boring1886-1968
Edward Tolman1886-1959
John B. Watson1878-1958
Edward Titchener
Karl Bühler1879-1963
Gordon Allport1897-1967
Rudolf Carnap1891-
Vienna Circle
Moritz Schlick1882-1936
Philipp Franck1884-1966
Hans Reichenbach1891-1953
Karl Popper1902-1994
Gestalt psychology
Otto Neurath1882-1945
Oswald Külpe1862-1915
Wilhelm Wundt1832-1920
Leipzig
Oswald Külpe1862-1915
Karl Bühler1879-1963
Sprachtheorie1934
Ferdinand de Saussure1857-1913
Franz Brentano1838-1917
Carl Stumpf 1848-1936
Edmund Husserl 1859-1938
Alexius Meinong 1853-1920
Trubetzkoy1890-1938
Berlin
1905Würzburg
Karl Popper
1922-1938
Cercle linguistiquede Prague
Cours LG
Hermann Paul1846-1921
Prinzipien der SG
Ernst Cassirer1874-1945
Karl Brugmann1849-1919
Volume 1
1800 1850 1900 1940
2: 19th century 3: psychology
4: US structurallinguistics
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Volume 1
1800 1850 1900 1940
2: 19th century 3: psychology
4: US structurallinguistics
5: HusserlViennaCircle
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Volume 1
1800 1850 1900 1940
2: 19th century 3: psychology
4: US structurallinguistics
5: HusserlViennaCircle
6: logic
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Volume 1
1800 1850 1900 1940
2: 19th century 3: psychology
4: US structurallinguistics
5: HusserlViennaCircle
6: logic
7:Pragueschool
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Volume 2
1930 1940 1950 1960 1970
1: Zellig Harris, Charles Hockett
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Volume 2
1930 1940 1950 1960 1970
1: Zellig Harris, Charles Hockett
2: Immigres inNew York
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Volume 2
1930 1940 1950 1960 1970
1: Zellig Harris, Charles Hockett
2: Immigres inNew York
3: Cybernetics
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Volume 2
1930 1940 1950 1960 1970
1: Zellig Harris, Charles Hockett
2: Immigres inNew York
3: Cybernetics
4: Thinking’scomeback
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Volume 2
1930 1940 1950 1960 1970
1: Zellig Harris, Charles Hockett
2: Immigres inNew York
3: Cybernetics
4: Thinking’scomeback
5:Syntax
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Volume 2
1930 1940 1950 1960 1970
1: Zellig Harris, Charles Hockett
2: Immigres inNew York
3: Cybernetics
4: Thinking’scomeback
5:Syntax
6:Chomsky
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Volume 2
1930 1940 1950 1960 1970
1: Zellig Harris, Charles Hockett
2: Immigres inNew York
3: Cybernetics
4: Thinking’scomeback
5:Syntax
6:Chomsky
7: Cognitive science
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Volume 2
1930 1940 1950 1960 1970
1: Zellig Harris, Charles Hockett
2: Immigres inNew York
3: Cybernetics
4: Thinking’scomeback
5:Syntax
6:Chomsky
7: Cognitive science
8:Standardtheories
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Volume 2
1930 1940 1950 1960 1970
1: Zellig Harris, Charles Hockett
2: Immigres inNew York
3: Cybernetics
4: Thinking’scomeback
5:Syntax
6:Chomsky
7: Cognitive science
8:Standardtheories
9:Showdown
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Volume 2
1930 1940 1950 1960 1970
1: Zellig Harris, Charles Hockett
2: Immigres inNew York
3: Cybernetics
4: Thinking’scomeback
5:Syntax
6:Chomsky
7: Cognitive science
8:Standardtheories
9:Showdown
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