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A Platonic Paradox
John Colarusso
[short_description] In the late 1970s, John Colarusso sent a letter to Noam Chomsky to point out the difficulties faced by Chomsky’s language acquisition device. Colarusso comes back to this letter, some forty years on.
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Linguistic Archaeology
Mark Leone
[short_description] An archaeologist of Christianity explores how linguistics might be linked to his field, and finds the common core to be an imaginary world, reached through worldly means.
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A Hand-Waving Exact Science
Sheldon Lee Glashow
[short_description] Cosmology has evolved over the past few decades from a hand-waving qualitative discipline to what is more and more becoming an exact science. Max Tegmark’s work has been integral in this progression.
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The Galilean Style
John Bolender
reply by Juan Uriagereka & David Berlinski
[short_description] For Ludwig Wittgenstein, the label “language” lumps together activities by reason of their overlapping similarities, their family resemblances. He saw no need to suppose any prevailing hidden unity.
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Beneath the Surface
Norbert Hornstein & Kleanthes Grohmann
reply by Juan Uriagereka & David Berlinski
[short_description] At the core of case lies an abstract, phonetically null Case. The authors discuss how Jean-Roger Vergnaud’s proposal regarding abstract Case enhanced the explanatory power of Universal Grammar.
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On the Other Hand
Robert Freidin
reply by Juan Uriagereka & David Berlinski
[short_description] The following remarks attempt to place Jean-Roger Vergnaud’s letter to Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik more centrally within the history of modern generative grammar from its inception to the present.
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Who Is It Meant For?
Pello Salaburu
reply by Juan Uriagereka & David Berlinski
[short_description] Who is the intended audience of David Berlinski and Juan Uriagereka’s essay “Recovery of Case”?
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An Ambivalent Amphibian
David Lahti
reply by Bret Weinstein
[short_description] You are a fish, as Bret Weinstein notes in his piece on how to talk about organisms. Since mammals are nested within a broader clade that we nickname “fish,” we are indeed fish in that sense.
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Grasping for Groups
Simone Immler
reply by Bret Weinstein
[short_description] Why do humans seem to have an intrinsic need to categorize and group similar items together? Our natural surroundings, with their splendid diversity of organisms, are not exempt from this habit of ours.
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