Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

Biographic Data

ID365965
NAMEMassimo Piattelli-Palmarini
GIVEN NAMESMassimo
FAMILY NAMEPiattelli-Palmarini
SIGNATUREPIATTELLI-PALMARINI M
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX1

  • The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives

    Open AccessMarc D Hauser, Michael A Hauser et al.BOOKEvolution of Human Language2010

    The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such standpoints, including language's genetic basis, the anthropological context of its appearance, its formal structure, its relation to systems of cognition and thought, as well as its possible evolutionary a…

  • Linguistics in Cognitive Science: The state of the art amended

    Cedric Boeckx, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini et al.ARTICLEThe Linguistic Review2007

    For over ten years now Jackendoff has argued that linguistic theory as carried out by “mainstream generative grammarians”, particularly under the rubric of minimalism, is misguided. The arguments have remained remarkably constant, and have been repeated on numerous occasions. The present article indicates why we remain unconvinced by the strength of his arguments

  • Language as a natural object – linguistics as a natural science

    Cedric Boeckx, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini et al.ARTICLEThe Linguistic Review2005

    The Chomskyan revolution in linguistics in the 1950s in essence turned linguistics into a branch of cognitive science (and ultimately biology) by both changing the linguistic landscape and forcing a radical change in cognitive science to accommodate linguistics as many of us conceive of it today. More recently Chomsky has advanced the boldest version of his naturalistic approach to language by proposing a Minimalist Program for linguistic theory.…

  • The Metric of Open-Mindedness

    Open AccessMassimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo Piattelli‐PalmariniARTICLENatural Language and Linguistic…2000

  • Evolution, selection and cognition: From “learning” to parameter setting in biology and in the study of language

    Open AccessMassimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo Piattelli‐PalmariniARTICLECognition1989

  • Constructivism versus Innatism in Theories of Language and Learning

    Aaron V Cicourel, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1982

  • Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky

    Jane H Hill, Massimo Piattelli-PalmariniARTICLELanguage1981

  • Structure distale et sensation proximale

    Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo Piattelli‐PalmariniARTICLECommunications1979Cited by: 1

    Piattelli-Palmarini Massimo. Structure distale et sensation proximale. In: Communications, 31, 1979. La nourriture. Pour une anthropologie bioculturelle de l'alimentation, sous la direction de Claude Fischler. pp. 171-188

  • Nec tecum nec sine te

    Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo Piattelli‐PalmariniARTICLECommunications1972

    Piattelli-Palmarini Massimo. Nec tecum nec sine te. In: Communications, 18, 1972. L'événement. pp. 128-131