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[美]史蒂芬·平克 出版社:浙江人民出版社 出品方:湛庐文化 副标题: 人类语言进化的奥秘 原作名: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language 译者:
欧阳明亮 出版年: 2015-5-1 页数: 492 定价: 109.90元 装帧: 精装 丛书:语言与人性四部曲 ISBN: 9787213066559
This, in a nutshell, is the theory of thinking called "the physical symbol system hypothesis" or the "computational" or "representational" theory of mind. It is as fundamental to cognitive science as the cell doctrine is to biology and plate tectonics is to geology. Cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists are trying to figure out what kinds of representations and processors the brain has. But there are ground rules that must be followed at all times: no little men inside, and no peeking. The representations that one posits in the mind have to be arrangements of symbols, and the processor has to be a device with a fixed set of reflexes, period. The combination, acting all by itself, has to produce the intelligent conclusions. The theorist is forbidden to peer inside and "read" the symbo... (查看原文)
So here is the question: Do they in fact? For example, if we know that Socrates is a man, is it because we have neural patterns that correspond one-to- one to the English words Socrates, is, a, and man, and groups of neurons in the brain that correspond to the subject of an English sentence, the verb, and the object, laid out in that order? Or do we use some other code for representing concepts and their relations in our heads, a language of thought or mentalese that is not the same as any of the world's languages? We can answer this question by seeing whether English sentences embody the information that a processor would need to perform valid sequences of reasoning— without requiring any fully intelligent homunculus inside doing the "understanding."
The answer is a clear no. English (or ... (查看原文)
《语言本能》:人类语言进化的奥秘(The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creater Language)是史蒂芬‧平克(Steven Pinker)的一部革命性著作。 对于这样一本语言学大作,再加上各路大牛的如潮好评,我感觉阅读压力的巨大,担心由于读不好而降低了书的价值。但同时也充满...
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这版忍无可忍的语病/翻译错误列一下 【】内是我的翻译或吐槽。非英文专业,有错误请指出。 P54 head, fall, me no good 头,掉下来了,我没有用了 【头,摔到了,我感觉不太好】 P79 he manipulates the sculptures in his mind's eye 他在脑内操弄他的雕像 【不能用摆弄吗啊...
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《语言本能 (the language instinct)》是一本打着科普读物旗号的学术专著。他的作者史蒂芬・平克(Steven Pinker) 于1982年到2003年于MIT的脑与认知科学系任教,于2003年任职哈佛大学心理学教授,并在之后获得名誉教授头衔。MIT,“语言先天派”的语言科学家们的聚集地,Pinke...
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137 有用 阿伽墨得 2017-03-05 21:23:55
之前看总觉哪里怪怪的,这次终于发现问题所在。论证不行,每章节小标题给出的论点都令人兴奋,里面的论证和解决却很勉强。比如心智计算那块啰啰嗦嗦语焉不详,跟《复杂》的简洁清晰相比高下立现。还有过多阐述别人观点导致替代性很强(从这个角度看倒是不错的入门书,参考资料汇编、索引) 也可以学到东西——人类学研究请看1,情商低请看3,GRE 备考请看4,托福口语进阶请看5,英文写作请看6,育儿知识请看8,脑科学请... 之前看总觉哪里怪怪的,这次终于发现问题所在。论证不行,每章节小标题给出的论点都令人兴奋,里面的论证和解决却很勉强。比如心智计算那块啰啰嗦嗦语焉不详,跟《复杂》的简洁清晰相比高下立现。还有过多阐述别人观点导致替代性很强(从这个角度看倒是不错的入门书,参考资料汇编、索引) 也可以学到东西——人类学研究请看1,情商低请看3,GRE 备考请看4,托福口语进阶请看5,英文写作请看6,育儿知识请看8,脑科学请看9,进化论请看10。各得其所的一本。 (展开)
1 有用 无非 2015-11-25 20:02:30
悦读指数很高。
8 有用 Jin 2016-03-16 11:10:35
把有些枯燥的话题讲得简单明了甚至很诙谐。有许多令人大开眼界的事实。但中文版有一点要吐槽:竟然把 get stoned 翻译成“喝醉了”。或许曾几何时有过这种说法,但这样的错误很可能会给不知情的人带来大麻烦。
6 有用 魏知超 2015-12-19 21:13:31
期望太高,略失望。
9 有用 违天择 2017-01-17 16:31:42
材料丰富,涉及问题繁杂,总体上重罗列而轻论证,各章节内容缺少连贯统一的学术思想统摄,关键观点、争议性观点的论证过程极弱,和《人性中的善良天使》给人的印象一致:平克引用中性甚至不利的例证论证自己观点的现象非常严重。