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Reinventing Linguistics – Again
W. Tecumseh Fitch
How to reconcile Noam Chomsky the linguist and philosopher with Chomsky the political critic? In a review of What Kind of Creatures Are We? biologist W. Tecumseh Fitch finds an underlying unity.
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It’s You, Again
Daniel Kleitman
Must there be an infinite number of copies of you, in an infinite number of local universes? Mathematician Daniel Kleitman says no. A review of Max Tegmark’s Our Mathematical Universe.
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Good God!
Luke Barnes
Even an atheist has to believe something. Luke Barnes reviews Sean Carroll’s The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself, and his construction of an atheistic worldview.
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Vegetable Rights
Daniel Gelernter
Is human culture in denial of vegetal existence? Daniel Gelernter reviews Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder.
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Mindfulness
George Scialabba
Consider the mind-body problem and the question of consciousness. Will a naturalistic account serve? Thomas Nagel says no. George Scialabba reviews the short but ambitious Mind and Cosmos.
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More Better Meta
Nona Robinson
Empty sets, conspiracies, and indeterminacy. Nona Robinson reviews Numero Zero, the last novel by the late Umberto Eco, connoisseur of secrets.
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Good for Nothing
George Scialabba
Perhaps not the Fifth Horseman of the New Atheism, but still persuasive: George Scialabba reviews Faith Versus Fact by Jerry Coyne, a new contribution to the debates over science versus religion.
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Blinded by Love
Edward Rothstein
Any sense of the true power and beauty of mathematics is lost when alegbra and geometry are taught poorly. Or so Edward Frenkel argues in Love and Math. Edward Rothstein is less convinced.
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Free Will – Again
Philip Clayton
In Free Will, Sam Harris argues that science has shown freedom of the will does not exist. Harris takes up one of the most complex debates in Western philosophy and trivializes it beyond recognition.
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