In this compelling volume, ten distinguished thinkers ?? William G. Lycan, Galen Strawson, Jeffrey Poland, Georges Rey, Frances Egan, Paul Horwich, Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietroski, Alison Gopnik, and Ruth Millikan ?? address a variety of conceptual issues raised in Noam Chomsky?s work.

• Distinguished list of critics: William G. Lycan, Galen Strawson, Jeffrey Poland, Georges Rey, Frances Egan, Paul Horwich, Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietroski, Alison Gopnik, and Ruth Millikan.
  
• Includes Chomsky?s substantial new replies and responses to each essay.
  
• The best critical introduction to Chomsky?s thought as a whole.

In this compelling volume, ten distinguished thinkers - William G. Lycan, Jeffrey Poland, Galen Strawson, Frances Egan, Georges Rey, Peter Ludlow, Paul Horwich, Paul M. Pietroski, Alison Gopnik, and Ruth Garrett Millikan - address a variety of conceptual issues raised in Noam Chomsky's work on mind and language. Topics covered include: the ontological commitments inherent in a Chomskian approach to linguistic competence the possibility of systematic referential semantics for natural language whether we can learn anything about the foundations of language by adopting an evolutionary perspective whether the 'theory theory' in developmental psychology counters Chomsky's arguments for nativism the relevance and urgency of the mind - body problem in the post-Newtonian world.These analyses are followed by substantial responses from Chomsky himself. The result is a provocative and engaging discussion of Chomsky's work on questions of central importance to theories of mind and language.

Louise M. Antony is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at The Ohio State University. She is the author of numerous articles in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, and feminist theory. She is editor of A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity, second edition (with Charlotte Witt, 2002).

Norbert Hornstein is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of numerous articles and books on linguistic theory, including Move! A Minimalist Theory of Construal (Blackwell Publishers, 2000), Logical Form: From GB to Minimalism (Blackwell Publishers, 1995),As Time Goes By: Tense and Universal Grammar (1994), and Logic as Grammar: An Approach to Meaning in Natural Language (1984).