John A Goldsmith

Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, University of Chicago

John A Goldsmith is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at the University of Chicago. His most recent book is Battle in the Mind Fields (2019), coauthored with Bernard Laks.

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Thinkers and theories

With charisma to spare

Franz Brentano, philosopher and psychologist, was an iconic teacher eclipsed by his students, Freud and Husserl among them

John A Goldsmith