Rules and
Representations

First published in Great Britain by Basil Blackwell in 1980, copyright 1980 Noam Chomsky; this copy is the paperback — “Reprinted and first published in paperback 1982”, ISBN 0 631 13106 X, on a label affixed to the imprint page. Six chapters across two parts: “Mind and Body”, “Structures, Capacities, and Conventions”, “Knowledge of Grammar”, “Some Elements of Grammar”, then “On the Biological Basis of Language Capacities” and “Language and Unconscious Knowledge”. It is the book in which the mentalist case is argued at book length against its philosophical critics.