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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• Smith, E. D., M. Piattelli-Palmarini and A. T. Bahill. (2008). Cognitive biases affect the acceptance of tradeoff studies. In Kugler, T., J. C. Smith, T. Connolly and Y. J. Son. (Eds.), Decision Modeling and Behavior in Complex and Uncertain Environments (pp. 227-249). New York: Springer, Science+Business Media.
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• Piattelli-Palmarini, M. and J. Uriagereka (2008). "Still a bridge too far? Biolinguistic questions for grounding language on brains." Physics of Life Reviews 5: 207-224.
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• Piattelli-Palmarini, M., Salaburu, P., and Uriagereka, J. (2009). Introduction. Of Minds and Language: A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country. Oxford University Press
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