If someone gives me some deep fried calamari in exchange for cheesy fries, is that squid pro quo?
A general question
January 24th, 2008 · 9 Comments
The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
January 24th, 2008 · 12 Comments
My friend Fred (Fredcritter on LJ) sent me Steven Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought presumably because he guessed I’d find a book about language and thought and their mutual interaction interesting. He was right. Mr. Pinker is a psychology professor at Harvard, and has written several books advocating evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of [...]