Documents tagged with Pinker

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Aritifical Intelligence and the Evolution of Language

A critique of artificial intelligence's present role in the question of how language evolved in homo-sapiens.
  • mackus28397 published this 06 / 21 / 2009
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On Language: The Dual- and Single-Route Theories

A paper examining the nativist and empiricist accounts of language acquisition in children.
  • Voog published this 03 / 17 / 2009
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Memes, Free Will, Strong Naturalism, and Toilet Paper

Daniel Dennett, Susan Blackmore, and the irrational notion of "memes" as some sort of biological yet sociolocial counterpart to genetics, which at times somehow "make us" resort to acts of cultural...
  • freeassemblage published this 08 / 26 / 2008
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Top 20 Public Intellectuals

This power point presentation on "The World's Top 20 Public Intellectuals" organized by the magazines Foreign Policy and Prospect.FOREIGN POLICY (US )and Prospect(UK) will publish the results of th...
  • zuhairalik published this 07 / 17 / 2008
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Kennealey on Pinker's Stuff of Thought

Watch Your Language What our words reveal about our minds, but not about the world. By Christine Kenneally Posted Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007, at 11:37 AM ET Steven Pinker is a man stuffed with though...
  • Medway08 published this 12 / 23 / 2007
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Steven Pinker - What the Fuck - Why We Curse

Steven Pinker analyzes the grammatical, moral and cognitive structure of cursing.
  • bertomeister published this 10 / 10 / 2007
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