Faculty of Language

One of the most useful philosophy tracts written in the last 25 years is Harry Frankfurt’s  On Bullshit  (OB,  here ). OB makes an importan...

A while ago I mentioned work done suggesting that Gallistel's conjecture that cognitive computation does not require neural nets is corr...

Here’s another note on the contemporary ubiquitous desire (especially among scientists and “experts”) to demarcate science (and with it “ex...

One thing Empiricism (E) got right is that there are no foundational assumptions of general scientific utility that are empirically inviola...

The obit for Koko in a recent post ( here ), though intended somewhat tongue in cheek, garnered three interesting comments. They pointed to...