@misc{cogprints7708,
           month = {May},
           title = {Can Internalism and Externalism be Reconciled in a Biological Epistemology of Language?},
          author = {Prakash Mondal},
       publisher = {Springer},
            year = {2011},
         journal = {Biosemiotics},
             url = {http://cogprints.org/7708/},
        abstract = {This paper is an attempt at exploring the possibility of reconciling the two interpretations of biolinguistics which have been recently projected by Koster(Biolinguistics 3(1):61?92, 2009). The two interpretations{--}trivial and nontrivial{--}can be roughly construed as non-internalist and internalist conceptions of biolinguistics respectively. The internalist approach boils down to a conception of language where language as a mental grammar in the form of I-language grows and functions like a biological organ. On the other hand, under such a construal consistent with Koster?s (Biolinguistics 3(1):61-92, 2009), the non-internalist version does not necessarily have to be externalist in nature; rather it is a matter of mutual reinforcement of biology and culture under the rubric of a co-evolutionary dynamics. Here it will be argued that the apparent dichotomy between these two conceptions of biolinguistics can perhaps be resolved if we have a richer synthesis that accounts for both internalism and non-internalism.}
}

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