Related Subjects: Author Index Reviews Page 1 2
Book reviews for "Baker,_Gordon_P." sorted by average review score:

From Modernization to Globalization: Perspectives on Development and Social Change (Blackwell Readers in Sociology)
Published in Hardcover by Blackwell Publishers (December, 1999)
Authors: J. Timmons Roberts and Gordon P. Baker
Amazon base price: $72.95
Average review score:

S and S or Scholars and Students
Wonderful resource for a birdseye view of significant observations of the world changes for 2000plus. Stimulates individual thought and also excellent for a group discussion launching pad. Scholars and students will find it engaging and meaningful.


Language, Sense and Nonsense
Published in Paperback by Blackwell Publishers (October, 1986)
Authors: Gordon P. Baker and P. M. S. Hacker
Amazon base price: $65.00
Used price: $82.50
Average review score:

A brilliant, but much-neglected, critique of linguistics
Baker and Hacker offer an incisive critique of modern linguistic theorising and philosophical conceptions of language based upon this mode of reasoning. Drawing heavily, but productively, upon the later logical work of Wittgenstein, they show, decisively in my view, that the Chomskian project is through-and-through misconceived, as are the philosophical works which ensued from his baleful influence. Applying recursive-function-theoretic concepts to the analysis of parts-of-speech (syntax), Chomsky believed that his analyses would cast light upon the universal grammar of all human languages, thence upon the essence of human mentality. Baker and Hacker (sometimes mercilessly) attack the very bases of such a project, including its apparently deep motivating concern: the new sentence production phenomenon. Nowhere in contemporary critisicm of modern linguistics can you find a more sustained, informed and well-argued attack upon the mythologies being perpetrated by the MIT linguists than here in this wonderful, scholarly and remarkably wide-ranging book.


Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind (An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Vol 3)
Published in Hardcover by Blackwell Publishers (January, 1996)
Authors: Peter Michael Stephan Hacker and Gordon P. Baker
Amazon base price: $135.95
Used price: $90.00
Average review score:

A work that will no doubt please the self-important...
... Wittgenstein intelligentsia. The author is so arrogant and pretentious that in one section he proposes to overthrow the empirical discipline of cognitive science by examining the English grammar of the word "mind". If the brain is truly not the organ of thinking, as you claim, Mr. Hacker; then I suppose it shall come as no insult to you that I believe *your* mental processes would suffer no loss even if said organ were removed from your skull. This book is trash and should not be read by anyone.


Wittgenstein: Mind and Will (Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Vol 4)
Published in Hardcover by Blackwell Publishers (September, 1996)
Authors: P. M. S. Hacker and Gordon P. Baker
Amazon base price: $153.95
Average review score:
No reviews found.

An Analytical Commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigation
Published in Paperback by University of Chicago Press (December, 1985)
Authors: P.M.S. Hacker and Gordon P. Baker
Amazon base price: $13.95
Used price: $34.52
Average review score:
No reviews found.

Frege: Logical Excavations
Published in Hardcover by Oxford University Press (February, 1993)
Authors: P.M.S. Hacker and Gordon P. Baker
Amazon base price: $49.95
Average review score:
No reviews found.

Scepticism, Rules and Language
Published in Paperback by Blackwell Publishers (March, 1986)
Author: Gordon P. Baker
Amazon base price: $34.95
Average review score:
No reviews found.

Skepticism, Rules and Language
Published in Paperback by Blackwell Publishers (March, 1986)
Authors: P.M.S. Hacker and Gordon P. Baker
Amazon base price: $19.95
Used price: $37.85
Average review score:
No reviews found.

Wittgenstein, Frege, and the Vienna Circle
Published in Textbook Binding by Blackwell Publishers (September, 1988)
Author: Gordon P. Baker
Amazon base price: $49.95
Used price: $799.95
Average review score:
No reviews found.

Wittgenstein, Rules, Grammar and Necessity
Published in Paperback by Blackwell Publishers (January, 1996)
Authors: Gordon P. Baker and P. M. S. Hacker
Amazon base price: $49.95
Average review score:
No reviews found.

Related Subjects: Author Index Reviews Page 1 2

Reviews are from readers at Amazon.com. To add a review, follow the Amazon buy link above.