Commentary on limitations of AI for language
Sunday, December 10, 2023
Behavioral and Brain Sciences December 2023
To be published in Rivista di Grammatica Generativa, special issue for Andrea Moro's 60th birthday
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Edgar (Morin) avait raison (in French) in press
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
The language(s) of sailing in R. Casati (Ed) The Sailing Mind.
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Minds with meanings (pace Fodor and Pylyshyn)
Thursday, October 1, 2020
MPP on Piaget, Chomsky, Fodor and the Baldwin Effcet
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2019). Reflections on Piaget Chomsky, Fodor, Epigenetics and the Baldwin Effect. Paradigmi, XXXVII (1), 23-52.
Medeiros and MPP The golden phrase
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Medeiros, D., & Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2018). The Golden Phrase: Steps to the Physics of Language. In A. Gallego & R. Martin (Eds.), Language, Syntax, and the Natural Sciences (pp. 333-350). Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Karimi, S., & Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2018). Introduction to the special issue on parameters. Linguistic Analysis, 41(3-4), 141
Fodor's concepts
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2018). Fodor and the innateness of all (basic) concepts (Chapter 6). In R. G. de Almeida & L. R. Gleitman (Eds.), Concepts, Modules, and Language: Cognitive Science at its Core (pp. 211-237). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
MPP and Vitiello Quantum field theory and Minimalsm
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Piattelli-Palmarini, M., & Vitiello, G. (2017). Quantum field theory and the linguistic Minimalist Program: a remarkable isomorphism. Journal of Physics: Conf. Series 880 (2017) 012016 doi :10.1088/1742-6596/880/1/012016, IOP Conference Series: 8th International Workshop DICE2016: Spacetime - Matter - Quantum Mechanics(880), 1-16. doi:doi :10.1088/1742-6596/880/1/012016
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2017). Normal language in abnormal brains. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 81 (October), 188-19
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
MPP On normal language in abnormal brains
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2017). Normal language in abnormal brains. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 81 (October), 188-193. doi: doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.02.008
MPP On Lenneberg 50 years later
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2017). From Zero to Fifty: Considerations on Eric Lenneberg’s Biological Foundations of Language and Updates. Biolinguistics, 11(Special issue), 423-444.
Le intelligenti autocritiche di Darwin
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2017). Le intelligenti autocritiche di Darwin. Rivista di Filosofia (special issue).
MPP and Vitiello Third factors in language design
Piattelli-Palmarini, M., & Vitiello, G. (2017). Third factors in language design: some suggestions from Quantum Field Theory. In J. McGilvray (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky, 2nd Edition (pp. 134-152). Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press.
MPP and Vitiello Linguistics and its underlying dynamics
Piattelli-Palmarini, M., & Vitiello, G. (2015). Linguistics and Some Aspects of Its Underlying Dynamics. Biolinguistics, 9, 96–115.
MPP & Vitiello, G. Linguistics and Some Aspects of its dynamics
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Piattelli-Palmarini, M., & Vitiello, G. (2015). Linguistics and Some Aspects of Its Underlying Dynamics. Biolinguistics, 9, 96–115.
Piattelli-Palmarini and Vitiello Linguistics and underlying dynamics
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Piattelli-Palmarini, M., & Vitiello, G. (2015). Linguistics and some aspects of its underlying dynamics. arXiv.org > cs > arXiv:1506.08663 arXiv:1506.08663v1 [cs.CL], Cornell University Library. Retrieved from
Berwick, Chomsky and MPP Why recent challenges fail
Berwick, R. C., Chomsky, N., & Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2013). Poverty of the Stimulus Stands: Why Recent Challenges Fail. In M. Piattelli-Palmarini & R. C. Berwick (Eds.), Rich Languages from Poor Inputs (pp. 19-42). Oxford, UK: : Oxford University Press.
Language Down The Garden Path: The Cognitive And Biological Basis for Linguistic Structures.
M. Piattelli Palmarini. (2013). On abstraction and language universals. In M. Sanz, Laka, I. & Tanenhaus, M. (Eds.), Language Down The Garden Path: The Cognitive And Biological Basis for Linguistic Structures. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press.
The Cambridge Handbook of Biolinguistics
M. Piattelli-Palmarini. (2013). Biolinguistics yesterday, today, and tomorrow. In C. Boeckx & Grohmann, K. K. (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Biolinguistics (pp. 12-21). Cambridge UK and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Rich Languages from Poor Inputs
R. C. Berwick, Chomsky, N., & Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2013). Poverty of the Stimulus Stands: Why Recent Challenges Fail. In M. Piattelli- Palmarini & Berwick, R. C. (Eds.), Rich Languages from Poor Inputs (pp. 19-42). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
What Darwin Got Wrong
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Fodor, J. and Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2011). Reply to our Critics. What Darwin Got Wrong. Picador Press.
MPP et al. Biolinguistics manifesto
Sciullo, A. M. D., Piattelli-Palmarini, M., Wexler, K., Berwick, R. C., Boeckx, C., Jenkins, L., . . . Bever, T. G. (2010). The biological nature of human language. Biolinguistics, 4(1), 04-034.
The Spiked Review of Books
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2010). It is now blasphemy to criticise Darwin. The Spiked Review of Books Friday 26 March.
New Scientist Magazine
Fodor, J. and Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2010). Survival of the fittest theory: Darwinism's limits. New Scientist Magazine (2746 (06 February)): pp. 28-31.
Biolinguistics
Di Sciullo, A. M., M. Piattelli-Palmarini, K. Wexler, R. C. Berwick, et al. (2010). The biological nature of human language. Biolinguistics 4(1): 4-34.
Of Minds and Language: A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Piattelli-Palmarini, M., Salaburu, P., and Uriagereka, J. (2009). Introduction. Of Minds and Language: A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country. Oxford University Press
The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2009). What is language, that it may have evolved, and what is evolution, that it may apply to language. In R. K. Larson, V. Deprez and H. Yamakido (eds.) The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge UK: pp. 148-162
