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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 

Physics of Life Reviews

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. and J. Uriagereka (2008). Still a bridge too far? Biolinguistic questions for grounding language on brains. Physics of Life Reviews 5: 207-224.

Decision Modeling and Behavior in Complex and Uncertain Environments

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Smith, E. D., M. Piattelli-Palmarini and A. T. Bahill. (2008). Cognitive biases affect the acceptance of tradeoff studies. In Kugler, T., J. C. Smith, T. Connolly and Y. J. Son. (Eds.), Decision Modeling and Behavior in Complex and Uncertain Environments (pp. 227-249). New York: Springer, Science+Business Media.

Evolution in Four Dimensions

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2008). Novel Tools at the Service of Old Ideas. Review of Jablonka, Eva & Marion J. Lamb. 2005. Evolution in Four Dimensions. Cambridge MA, MIT Press. Biolinguistics 2.2.

On the Philosophy of Donald Davidson.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2008). Events and Conservativity: Clues towards Language Evolution. In M. C. Amoretti & N. Vassallo (Eds.), Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation. On the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, (pp. 81-105). Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag/Transaction Books.

Systems Engineering

Monday, January 1, 2007
Smith, E. D., Son, Y. J., Piattelli-Palmarini, M., & Bahill, A. T. (2007). Ameliorating mental mistakes on tradeoff studies. Systems Engineering, 10(3), 222-240.

he return of the laws of form. In C. P. Manzu' (Ed.), Life on the Edge (La Vita in Bilico) (Volume 2 - Workshop 1)

Sunday, January 1, 2006
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2006). The return of the laws of form. In C. P. Manzu' (Ed.), Life on the Edge (La Vita in Bilico) (Volume 2 - Workshop 1), pp. 45-57). Roma (Italy): Centro Pio Manzu'.

Human Brain Mapping

Saturday, January 1, 2005
Canessa, N., Gorini, A., Cappa, S. F., Piattelli.Palmarini, M., Danna, M., & Fazio, F. 2005. The effect of social content on deductive reasoning: An fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping 26: 30-43. 

The Linguistic Review

Saturday, January 1, 2005
Boeckx, C., & Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2005). Language as a natural object, linguistics as a natural science. The Linguistic Review, 22(2-3 "A review of the Role of Linguistics in Cognitive Science" (Nancy A. Ritter Ed.)), 447-466.

Variations and Universals in Biolinguistics

Thursday, January 1, 2004
Piattelli-Palmarini, M., & Uriagereka, J. (2004). The Immune Syntax: The Evolution of the Language Virus. In L. Jenkins (Ed.), (Chapter 4 of) Variations and Universals in Biolinguistics (pp. 341-377). Amsterdam, Boston: Elsevier North-Holland.

To put it simply...

Wednesday, January 1, 2003
Piattelli-Palmarini M. (2003). To put it simply..(Basic Concepts). Nature 426 (11 December): 607.

What is cognitive science? Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

Wednesday, January 1, 2003
Lynn Nadel and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (2003). What is cognitive science? Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (Macmillan)

Grammar: The barest essentials.

Tuesday, January 1, 2002
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2002). Grammar: The barest essentials. Nature 416 (14 March 2002): 129.

MPP Portrait of Jacques Mehler

Thursday, February 1, 2001
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2001). Portrait of a 'classical' cognitive scientist: What I have learned from Jacques Mehler. In E. Dupoux (Ed.), Language, Brain and Cognitive Development: Essays in Honor of Jacques Mehler (pp. 3-21). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Speaking of learning: How do we acquire our marvellous facility for expressing ourselves in words?

Monday, January 1, 2001
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2001). Speaking of learning: How do we acquire our marvellous facility for expressing ourselves in words? (Review of "Pathways to Language: From Fetus to Adolescent", by Kyra Karmiloff-Smith and Annette Karmiloff-Smith. Harvard University Press, 2001). Nature 411 (21 June 2001): 887-888.

Speaking in too many tongues.

Tuesday, February 1, 2000
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2000). Speaking in too many tongues. Nature 408 (23 November): pp. 403-404.

Tower of Babel

Saturday, January 1, 2000
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2000). Tower of Babel. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15 (4 April): pp. 173-174.

The Universal Structure of Babbling

Friday, January 1, 1999
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (1999). The Universal Structure of Babbling. Nature, 400 (26 August): pp. 289-230.

Rhyme and Reason: An Introduction to Minimalist Syntax

Thursday, January 1, 1998
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (1998). ForewordRhyme and Reason: An Introduction to Minimalist Syntax. J. Uriagereka. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press: pp. xxi-xxxvi.

In The Problem of Meaning: Behavioral and Cognitive Perspectives

Wednesday, January 1, 1997
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. and C. Cecchetto (1997). The Problem of Meaning in Generative Grammar. In The Problem of Meaning: Behavioral and Cognitive Perspectives. M. C. Mandell and A. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science: pp. 415-469.

Wishful Thinking?

Monday, January 1, 1996
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (1996). Wishful Thinking? Nature 382 (8 August): pp. 505-506.

Ever since language and learning: afterthoughts on the Piaget-Chomsky debate.

Saturday, January 1, 1994
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (1994). Ever since language and learning: afterthoughts on the Piaget-Chomsky debate. Cognition 50: pp. 315-346.

So Human a Brain: Knowledge and Values in the Neurosciences

Wednesday, January 1, 1992
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (1992). Truth in dreaming. In A. Harrington (Ed.), So Human a Brain: Knowledge and Values in the Neurosciences, pp.14-36. Birkhäuser Press, Boston MA.

Evolution, selection and cognition: from "learning" to parameter setting in biology and in the study of Language.

Sunday, January 1, 1989
Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (1989). Evolution, selection and cognition: from "learning" to parameter setting in biology and in the study of Language.Cognition, 31: pp. 1-44.

Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky

Tuesday, January 1, 1980
Piattelli-Palmarini M. (1980) Introduction to Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky (the Royaumont debate) (Harvard University Press, 1980). How hard is the "hard core" of a scientific theory?Part 2 and end.

Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky

Tuesday, January 1, 1980
Piattelli-Palmarini M. (1980) Preface and Introduction to Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky (the Royaumont debate) (Harvard University Press, 1980). Part 1

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