Faculty of Language

Here are two things to look at to stir the blood. The first  is a report of a recent breakthrough for storing information on DNA. This is ...

Tim Hunter sent me this interesting paper  by sociologist Kieran Healy that argues against nuance as a theoretical virtue. The title, “Fuck...

Asya Pereltsvaig dedicates (as of today) three posts examining Vyvyan Evan's claims in his recent book. I have already made my comments ...

Patrick Trettenbrein posted a comment on the recent little post on Gallistel's conjecture ( here ). He included a little paper of his t...

Are the critics right? Is there scant evidence for universals? The right answer is that it all depends what you mean by ‘universal.’ If by ...

Talk about outreach!  Here is a screening of this year's social science winner of the "Dance your PhD competition." I believe...

I once heard of a class tight in the great days of literary theory entitled something like "The influence of Philip Roth on Charles Dic...