happy-father-having-fun-while-playing-with-his-small-son-at-432892410-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Michael Egnor Date June 12, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionLinguisticsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , adjectives, agent causation, B. F. Skinner, behavior, behaviorism, children, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, free will, grammar, intellect, Jerry Fodor, language, Language Acquisition Device, language organ, Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, mental states, Michael Behe, Noam Chomsky, nouns, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, The Immortal Mind, Verbal Behavior, verbs, What Darwin Got Wrong Behaviorism Failed Much as Darwinism Has Done Michael Egnor June 12, 2025 Evolution, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind 5 The human mind, like the origin and development of life itself, is not reducible to merely physical processes. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date August 31, 2016 CategoriesHuman Origins and AnthropologyNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __tedited, abstract thought, behaviorism, communication, Daniel Everett, designators, grammar, human exceptionalism, human language, immaterial mind, language, language organ, Noam Chomsky, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe, universals, words Tom Wolfe on Language and Evolution Michael Egnor August 31, 2016 Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind 6 I think that Noam Chomsky is fundamentally right, and I am skeptical of Daniel Everett's claim. Read More ›
