Our new book on all things Linguistic Relativity, from its history to its future to the science behind it, is available Oxford Philosophy Oxford Academic now! Reasonable price and paperback available immediately shorturl.at/4RxAr | shorturl.at/4ITvk #Philosophy #linguistics

Kanzi video is finally done! A half-hour biography of the world's smartest primate. I know there are a lot of Kanzi vids out there, but I think this is the only one that tells his entire life story!

The new Philosophy Paperboy is online!

Be sure to check our (with Carrie Figdor & Sergio Balari) symposium on non-human language (from all angles!) at ISHPSSB 2025 in Porto, if you are around! #ISHPSSB2025 #philsci virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73530/sy…

New Cambridge Element The Philosophy of Linguistics by Ryan M. Nefdt is now free to read for 2 weeks! cup.org/46WiElu #cambridgeelements #philosophy

Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element The Philosophy of Linguistics by Ryan M. Nefdt Free access available until 8 August. cup.org/4o5ZD69 #cambridgeelements #philosophy

2 more days to get a free copy of my new book with Cambridge University Press - Philosophy CUP Linguistics Downloaded +12k times already! Central idea: what could the phil of science learn from the study of language? Turns out more than you think #cambridgeelements #Philosophy

Qualifying Knowledge and Knowledge Sharing in Multilingual Models Nicolas Guerin, Ryan M. Nefdt, Emmanuel Chemla. Action editor: Jeffrey Pennington. openreview.net/forum?id=hnpB3… #linguistic #knowledge #concepts

It was a great honour to present the Toyama International Philosophy seminar at 早稲田大学 Waseda University in Tokyo. On Linguistic Relativity, LLMs, & Cognition. Excellent discussion after at the home of the first ever robot WABOT-1 (it was not present)! #Philosophy #ArtificialIntelligence

Another wonderful event, this time Kyoto University! Thank you to my fellow speakers for the workshop and @shunichitakagi for organising. UCT

My new podcast, Ol’Things Considered, platforms research done by young African scholars in the humanities - centring contemporary issues Africans face. Please share & subscribe!🙏🏾 Link to Episode 1 - Border Regimes, Migrant Deaths with Nabil Ferdaoussi youtu.be/-oaeu8f_rW4?si…

New review by Kate Stanton on the very idea of languages as real patterns (from my 2013 Book: academic.oup.com/book/46518?log… Oxford Philosophy) in Analysis Oxford Journals #Philosophy #linguistics

My copy of the new intriguing book by Blaise Agüera (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social) (with The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social) just arrived to sunny Cape Town. It promise insights from automata theory, biology, philosophy, and AI. Saturday sorted!

At this point in the semester, I am just shamelessly doing anything to get my students to attend lectures!