Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Steven Pinker misreads my book

The fascinating and multifaceted debate between Lakoff and Pinker continues in The New Republic

For a quarter of a century, Steven Pinker and I have been on opposite sides of major intellectual and scientific divide concerning the nature of language and the mind. Until this review, the divide was confined to the academic world. But, recently, the issue of the nature of mind and language has come into politics in a big way. We can no longer conduct twenty-first-century politics with a seventeenth-century understanding of the mind. The political issues in this country and the world are just too important.

Source: Steven Pinker misreads my book

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