This text, part of a set that offers selected examples of issues and theories from many subfields of cognitive science, focuses on language. It employs a case study approach, presenting research topics in some depth and relying on suggested readings to convey the breadth of views and results.

The core of the book is a detailed treatment of extraction, a focus of syntactic research since the early work of Chomsky and Ross.

Professor Leiber's exuberant but incisive book illuminates the inquiry's beginnings in Plato, in the physiology and psychology of Descartes, in the formal work of Russell and Gödel, and in Wittgenstein's critique of folk psychology.

Rather than surveying theories and data in the manner characteristic of many introductory textbooks in the field, An Invitation to Cognitive Science employs a unique case study approach, presenting a focused research topic in some depth and relying on suggested readings to convey the breadth of views and results.