######### Articles INDEX ######### ######### Articles Filters #########

Filter by

Filters

CLOSE

######### TWO COL title #########

Articles

Sort by

######### Articles Sort #########
######### Articles Language Tab #########
######### Article Archive #########
######### Card Article (Articles Content) #########
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.
######### Card Article (Articles Content) #########
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?”
######### Card Article (Articles Content) #########
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.
######### Card Article (Articles Content) #########
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.
######### Card Article (Articles Content) #########
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.
######### Card Article (Articles Content) #########
The Difference It Makes
George Scialabba
Agency, autonomy, and artificial intelligence. George Scialabba reviews The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick by Jessica Riskin.
######### Card Article (Articles Content) #########
+ French version
The King’s Revolt
Henri Lepage
Mainstream economic doctrine may itself be an obstacle to economic normality. Economist Henri Lepage reviews Mervyn King’s The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy.
######### Card Article (Articles Content) #########
The Pope
Jeremy Bernstein
The human (and elemental) interactions that led to developing the atomic bomb. Jeremy Bernstein reviews The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Segrè and Hoerlin.
######### Card Article (Articles Content) #########
Successful Science
Merrilee Salmon
Does knowledge gained through the scientific method have a unique claim to truth? Is this the only true path? Merrilee Salmon reviews Scientism: The New Orthodoxy, eds. R. Williams and D. Robinson.
Endmark

Copyright © Inference 2024

ISSN #2576–4403