INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON HUMANISTIC IDEOLOGY

STUDIES INTO THE NATURE AND ORIGIN

OF HUMANISTIC IDEAS

VOL. 2 NO. 1 SPRING – SUMMER 2009

TOPICS: MIND AND LANGUAGE

Cover: Dana Sugu
Photo: © Horia-Mihai Gligor

SCIENTIFIC BOARD
Editor in Chief:
Dr. Mihaela Gligor, Department of Humanities, "George Bariţiu" History Institute,
Romanian Academy Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Executive-Editors:
Dr. Keith Hitchins, Department of History, University of Illinois, USA
Dr. Norman Girardot, University Distinguished Professor, Religion Studies Department,
Lehigh University, USA
Dr. T.N. Madan, Honorary Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi,
New Delhi, India
Dr. Mac Linscott Ricketts, Emeritus Professor on Religion, Louisburg College, North
Carolina, USA
Dr. Michael Freeden, Professor of Politics, University of Oxford and Fellow of Mansfield
College, Oxford; Director, Centre for Political Ideologies, University of Oxford, England
Members:
Dr. David McLellan, Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, University of
Kent, UK; Dr. James Gordon Finlayson, Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex, UK; Dr. Giovanni
Casadio, Professor, Cattedra di Storia delle Religioni, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Università di
Salerno, Italy; Dr. Virgil Drăghici, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of History and
Philosophy, "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Dr. Atashee Chatterjee Sinha, Reader in
Philosophy, Center of Advanced Study in Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India; Dr. Liviu Antonesei,
Professor, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Iaşi,
Romania; Dr. Mathew Humphrey, Reader in Political Philosophy, School of Politics & IR, University of
Nottingham, UK; Dr. Santosh Kr. Singh, Department of Sociology, Govt. College for Girls, Sector 11, Panjab
University, Chandigarh, India; Janam Mukherjee, Department of Anthropology and History, University of
Michigan, USA.

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 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
ON HUMANISTIC IDEOLOGY

Studies into the Nature and Origin

o f H u ma n i s t i c I d e a s

Vol. 2 No. 1 Spring - Summer 2009

TOPICS: MIND AND LANGUAGE

Edited by Mihaela GLIGOR

CLUJ UNIVERSITY PRESS

2009
 CONTENTS

Editorial

Mihaela GLIGOR:
Mind and Language. The problem …………………………....………..... 7

The Topics
Topics: Mind and Language

Noam CHOMSKY:
Thoughts on Minds and Language …………………………...…..….. 13

Amita CHATTERJEE:
Naturalism in Linguistic Theory ………………………………..……… 43

Steven PINKER:
The evolutionary social psychology of off-record indirect speech acts … 59

Virgil DRĂGHICI:
On some Limits of Thought……………………...……………..………… 91

Robert K. LOGAN:
The Extended Mind and the Emergence of Language and Culture………105

Smita SIRKER:
Can we infer the non-Observable Mind without Language? ……….… 129

Habibollah GHASSEMZADEH:
The Wise Man and Collective Memory in Sa’di’s Rose Garden: A
Cognitive - Narrative Analysis…………………………………………………. 135

Sharmistha DHAR:
Determinism:Do Untutored Intuitions Feed the Bugbears?………...…167
Reviews

Sanjukta BASU:
Smita Sirker and Amita Chatterjee, Mental Reasoning: Experiments and
Theories, Kolkata, India: Jadavpur University and Codex Publisher and Book
Seller, 2009, pp. xvii+320, ISBN: 978-81-906429-3-4………………………... 191

Keith HITCHINS:
Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston, Searching for Cioran, Bloomington and
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009, 284 p., ISBN – 978-0-253-35267-
5…………………………………………………………………………………. 195

Collaborators………………………………………………………….…….. 199