After reading "The Brain" I switched to less popular "The Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker. For me it is revolutionary book. I must admit - I never had appreciation to linguistic approach to philosophical problems. However, this book slowly changes my prejudice into admiration.
Too soon for the full review, but I already can say that it shows how important and fundamental and not-just-formal are linguistic studies. As one of the reviewers wrote: "Pikner probes the mystery of human nature by examining how we use words"....
More to come, I will continue reading (listening to) while travelling across Paris & London ...
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Tomasz Lis on Bidding Farewell to America: "The Worst is Likely Yet to Come"
This is automated translation of Tomasz Lis article which appeared in NaTemat online journal: https://natemat.pl/blogi/tomaszlis/589934,feli...
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This is a translation (which I made with help of AI to do it fast) of an extremely thoughtful article by Marcin Wyrwał - Polish war correspo... -
I have been reading the second volume of Sloterdijk's magnum opus for a couple of months now. I still haven't found the time for a f...
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