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The Last Threshold
Anne Dambricourt Malassé
Understanding bipedalism in Homo sapiens as a result of the growing complexity of the nervous system, Anne Dambricourt Malassé argues, necessitates a new morpholical definition of our species.
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Gödel: The Third Degree
Graham Oppy
Formulations of Gödel’s ontological argument in third-order modal logic, Grapham Oppy argues, allow us to decide between theistic and naturalistic positions.
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How Things Hang Together
George Scialabba
George Scialabba reviews Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science by Peter Watson, and his description of the progressive unification of the sciences.
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Decoding the Earliest Symbols
Ian Tattersall
What are the abstract symbols found in many Ice Age caves? Ian Tattersall reviews Genevieve von Petzinger’s The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World’s Oldest Symbols.
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Not Only Us
Cedric Boeckx
In his review of Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky’s Why Only Us, Cedric Boeckx argues for a fresh approach to the question at the heart of the book: “Are humans the only ones who possess language?”
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Fiat recursio!
David Lobina & Mark Brenchley
Most accounts of Chomsky’s concept of recursion are wrong; clarifying it renders a new critique by Tom Wolfe irrelevant. David Lobina and Mark Brenchley review Tom Wolfe’s The Kingdom of Speech.
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Spheres
Pieter Lemmens
From microspheres to macrospheres: Pieter Lemmens reviews German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk’s Foams: Plural Spherology, the conclusion of his vast and fascinating Spheres trilogy.
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The Lawless Frontier
Daniel Gelernter
Rethinking Order: After the Laws of Nature, edited by Nancy Cartwright and Keith Ward, is a collection of recent essays about the philosophy of science. Daniel Gelernter offers a critical review.
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Became, Become, Becoming
David Adger
Concepts such as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis form the basis for both the film Arrival and the short story by Ted Chiang on which it is based. David Adger reviews the film and its ideas.
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