Publications

For recent articles published in Italian, in the Italian Daily paper "Il Corriere della Sera"

• Piattelli-Palmarini M. (1980) Preface and Introduction to Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky (the Royaumont debate) (Harvard University Press, 1980). Part 1
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• Piattelli-Palmarini M. (1980) Introduction to Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky (the Royaumont debate) (Harvard University Press, 1980). How hard is the "hard core" of a scientific theory?
  Part 2 and end.
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• Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (1989). Evolution, selection and cognition: from "learning" to parameter setting in biology and in the study of Language. Cognition, 31: pp. 1-44.
  [Part 1 (pp. 1-25), Part 2, (pp. 26-44)]
• Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (1994). Ever since language and learning: afterthoughts on the Piaget-Chomsky debate. Cognition 50: pp. 315-346.
  [Part 1 (pp. 315-329), Part 2, (pp. 330-346)]
• Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (1996). Wishful Thinking? Nature 382 (8 August): pp. 505-506.
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• Piattelli-Palmarini, M. and C. Cecchetto (1997). The Problem of Meaning in Generative Grammar. In The Problem of Meaning: Behavioral and Cognitive Perspectives. M. C. Mandell and A. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science: pp. 415-469.
  [Part 1 (pp. 415-441), Part 2, (pp. 442-469)
• Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (1998). Foreword. Rhyme and Reason: An Introduction to Minimalist Syntax. J. Uriagereka. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press: pp. xxi-xxxvi.
  [Part 1, Part 2]
• Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (1999). The Universal Structure of Babbling. Nature, 400 (26 August): pp. 289-230.
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• Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2000). Speaking in too many tongues. Nature 408 (23 November): pp. 403-404.
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• Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2000). Tower of Babel. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15 (4 April): pp. 173-174.
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• Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2000). What's Within? Nativism Reconsidered. Trends in Cognitive Science 4 (July): pp. 290.
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• Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2001). Speaking of learning: How do we acquire our marvellous facility for expressing ourselves in words? (Review of "Pathways to Language: From Fetus to Adolescent", by Kyra Karmiloff-Smith and Annette Karmiloff-Smith. Harvard University Press, 2001). Nature 411 (21 June 2001): 887-888.
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• Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2002). Grammar: The barest essentials. Nature 416 (14 March 2002): 129.
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• Lynn Nadel and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (2003). What is cognitive science? Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (Macmillan)
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• Piattelli-Palmarini M. (2003). To put it simply..(Basic Concepts). Nature 426 (11 December): 607.
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• Piattelli-Palmarini, M., & Uriagereka, J. (2004). The Immune Syntax: The Evolution of the Language Virus. In L. Jenkins (Ed.), (Chapter 4 of) Variations and Universals in Biolinguistics (pp. 341-377). Amsterdam, Boston: Elsevier North-Holland.
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• Boeckx, C., & Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2005). Language as a natural object, linguistics as a natural science. The Linguistic Review, 22(2-3 "A review of the Role of Linguistics in Cognitive Science" (Nancy A. Ritter Ed.)), 447-466.
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• Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2006). The return of the laws of form. In C. P. Manzu' (Ed.), Life on the Edge (La Vita in Bilico) (Volume 2 - Workshop 1), pp. 45-57). Roma (Italy): Centro Pio Manzu'.
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• Smith, E. D., Son, Y. J., Piattelli-Palmarini, M., & Bahill, A. T. (2007). Ameliorating mental mistakes on tradeoff studies. Systems Engineering, 10(3), 222-240.
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• Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini Events and Conservativity: Clues towards Language Evolution To appear in M.C. Amoretti and N. Vassallo (2008) (eds), Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation. On the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt.
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• Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2008, in press) "Novel Tools at the Service of Old Ideas" A review of Jablonka, Eva & Marion J. Lamb. 2005. Evolution in Four Dimensions. Cambridge MA, MIT Press. To appear in Biolinguistics 2.2.
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