Language, Life and Logic

You wouldn't normally expect to come across a reference to deontic logic in a Bloomberg opinion piece but a recent article on the perce...

I have identified a possible flaw in a thought-experiment-based argument I posted here (' Kirk dies ') some time ago. I wrote: ...

Though much about the movements, migrations, interactions and material culture of early modern humans remains uncertain, rapid progress is b...

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about the intellectual and linguistic capacities of Neanderthals. This brief overview publishe...

General talk about views of the world can be very frustrating and unproductive. But reading this piece about the incompatibility between sci...

Attitudes to science and attitudes to language are often related. Many science-oriented people are 'linguistic revisionists'. They h...

This is a postscript to some previous discussions on death, human identity and 'the phantom self' . These issues are quite maddeni...