First Workshop on History and Philosophy of Chomsky's Linguistic Theory

Goals:

The central aim of this event is to promote the comunication of historic and philosophical researches on the chomskyan framework, which are developed in national and international centres.
The especific goals of the realization of this workshop are:
1) to spread the body of work that is currently developed in differente research projects on the disciplinar field of chomskyan studies.
2) to encourage the mutual exchange of ideas and discussion on the state of the art in the fields mentioned above.
3) to share experiences and practices acquired through research on the philosophy and historical aspects of the chomskyan theories of grammar, language and mind.
4) to help advanced students in becoming acquainted with the craft of investigation and research.
5) to support the collaboration between professors and recent graduates.
6) to the give the materials of the workshop a book-shaped outline for publication.

Overview:

The general aim of the workshop is to discuss and rethink the theoretical changes in the context of chomskian linguistics since the appearance of Syntactic Structures (1957) to the present time.
It is intended for the proceedings of the workshop to address the following two intellectual concerns: to reconstruct historically the development of the chomskian models, throughout its levels of representation (semantics, syntax, morphology, and so on); to present a broad set of philosophical aspects and research issues related to the chomskyan models, which are sensitive to systematic inquiry and critical evaluation.
Among the aspects and issues noted above, we could mention at least these:
1) epistemological: innate and tacit knowledge of a native speaker, the concept of linguistic competence, universality of linguistic components, etc.
2) metatheorical: theory-changes, ontogenetic models, model-theory reconstructions, scientific explanation and theoretical terms.
3) anthropological: the proposals on human rationality, the unity of human language, the characterization of the distinctive features of human nature.
4) philosophical (of mind and language): mind models; the problem of meaning; the mentalist thesis; the problem of private languages; etc.
5) of evolution theories: linguistic models and language philogenesis; emergence of human language and evolution theories.

Organizers:
Research Group in History and Metatheory of Chomskyan Linguistic. Philosophy Department. Humanities and Sciences College. National University of Litoral.

Time and Place:
From the 26th to the 28th of August - 2010

Humanities and Sciences College. National University of Litoral.
University Campus, Santa Fe, Argentina.

Contact emails:

metateoriachomskyana@gmail.com

adriana.n.gonzalo@gmail.com