Hi, linguistics professor here! Free lesson for you that I cover in my intro course: This is actually very normal. Everyone adjusts their language use based on their audience! Please look up sociolinguistics, register, code switching, and style shifting for more information.

Language isn't innate, it didn't evolve suddenly and without natural selection, grammar isn't the essential core of language, syntax isn't independent of semantics, the distinction between I-language and E-language is untenable. Was Chomsky right about anything?

New reviews of philosophy books and new and revised updates at online philosophy resources... dailynous.com/2024/09/03/onl…

The 2024 Rockwell Prize goes to... dailynous.com/2024/09/03/tho…

There's a new and growing peer-reviewed, open educational resource to help guide students through primary philosophical texts. dailynous.com/2024/09/04/new…

What is the best example of unintentional self-parody in the history of analytic philosophy? dailynous.com/2024/09/06/ana…

Taking awkwardness seriously. Socrates was political. The owl problem. The luck of a first-gen philosopher. Students, technology, and agency. Stebbing's moral philosophy. Censorship, knowledge, and debunking... dailynous.com/2024/09/09/min…

A new open-access issue of a philosophy journal is dedicated to the Russia-Ukraine war. How unusual is academic philosophy that's "dedicated to the analysis of historically contingent current affairs [or] a specific event of historical significance”? dailynous.com/2024/09/10/aca…

A new guide to graduate school in philosophy covers quite a lot... dailynous.com/2024/09/10/sur…

What a curious thing to say!

Liam Bright My favourite part of this is that it was removed not because of the AI thing but because they failed to obtain informed consent

Liam Bright Looks like Elseviers editorial and production process really added value to that particular piece of science.

My cartoon for the Guardian Books autumn reading special.

This is what in Japanese is known as ‘tsundoku’: buying book after book to add to a pile you will never get to.

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The 2 state solution is dead, pronounced so by Israel's leadership (tho' it was obvious enough given 500,000 settlers will never be removed). So it's time to consider what a one state solution would look like. I favour a secular state treating all ethnic/religious groups equally.

A lot of people complaining that these "communist" claims aren't in keeping with Western civilization. In his more conservative dialogue the Laws Plato insisted no stable society could abide wealth inequality, meaning the richest should own no more than 4 time the poorest...