Faculty of Language

In what follows I am going to wander way beyond my level of expertise (perhaps even rudimentary competence). I am going to discuss statisti...

Some thoughts on the relation between syntax and semantics, through the lens of compositionality: https://omer.lingsite.org/blogpost-meaning...

Just back from vacation and here is a starter post on, of all things, Evolang (once again).    Frans de Waal  has written a short and usefu...

Norbert's recent post on the BSification of academic life skipped one particular wart that's at the front of my mind now that I...

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...