Faculty of Language

As many of you may know, Noam just turned 90. In his honor, Michael Schiffman (with some help from Joahnn Hari and at the behest of Valeria ...

Here are a pair of papers ( here , here ) that discuss scientism. Scientism is hard to define exactly for it relies on being able to distin...

So, MOOCs will not kill higher ed. Nope, we can leave that to Republicans and neo-liberal democrats (at least the great jewel in the crown, ...

Here is an amusing addendum to the last post. The NYT ran an article ( here ) discussing the edge that China will have over the rest of the...

Johan Bolhuis sent me a copy of a  recent comment in TiCS (Priors in animal and artificial intelligence (henceforth  Priors )) on the utili...

Last post, I discussed the main thrust of my comments at the roundtable. Now I raise some of the points raised by the keynote speakers and ...

Before posting this, let me encourage others to do what William is doing here. Send me stuff to post on FoL. The fact that I have become fat...