Faculty of Language

For quite a while now, I’ve been wondering why natural language (NL) has so much morphology.  In fact, if one thinks abou...

There seems to be some discussion in the bio literature about the sources of "complexity." A standard position is that Natural Sel...

REVISED July 15/2013 First off, thanks to Ben, David and Andrew for correcting me. The discussion is not in Aspects  as stated...

Take a look at this wild article ( here ). It discusses a recent macabre experiment that involves worm head decapitations. Worms are able to...

This note is spurred by some points made by Alex Clark ( here ): Every scientific theory aims for truth. This is not ...

NOTE: Apparently the first posting of this had a broken link making the second paper unavailable. I've fixed these so now both PDFs are ...

The comments, especially by always level headed David Pesetsky, have provoked the following restatement of my beef with f...