Language, Life and Logic

For those who want to see the world as being comprised at a fundamental level entirely of such processes as physics and the other sciences m...

Noam Chomsky must enjoy making himself unpopular. His extreme (and extremely polarizing) political views are well-known. I once sat down w...

I have just put up a few notes on Conservative Tendency relating to recent problems with comment spam (fixed, I think, for both blogs), and...

Massimo Pigliucci has recently referred to the classic puzzle I alluded to in my previous post on this site about whether the destruction ...

Be assured that I am not prone to having mystical experiences, but I do – it must be said – seem to spend an inordinate amount of time in th...

If I appear to have a bit of an obsession with David Berlinski's writings, it may be because I share one or two of his obsessions (don...

In recent posts I have made a number of claims about language and the brain. Allow me to clarify and develop a couple of points. I don...