Why Only Us: Language and Evolution (The MIT Press) 9780262034241, 0262034247

Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and hu

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Why Only Us: Language and Evolution (The MIT Press)
9780262034241, 0262034247

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Herbert S. Terrace revisits his 1970s experiment to teach a chimpanzee language, Project Nim, to offer a novel view of t

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In this provocative book, Santiago Zabala declares that in an age where the greatest emergency is the absence of emergen

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How highly abstract quantum concepts were represented in language, and how these concepts were later taken up by philoso

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August Weismann’s 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism f

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There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, w

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There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, w

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In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the l

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Revisiting the schism that rendered twentieth-century philosophy into irreconcilable continental and analytic camps.

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What is humour? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error? Good jokes, bad jokes, clever

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