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  1. Language and Learning: The Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky.Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (ed.) - 1980 - Harvard University Press.
    Introduction: How hard is the "hard core" of a scientific program? / Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini -- pt. 1. The debate: 1. Opening the debate: The psychogenesis of knowledge and its epistemological significance / Jean Piaget -- On cognitive structures and their development: a reply to Piaget / Noam Chomsky -- 2. About the fixed nucleus and its innateness: Introductory remarks / Jean Piaget -- Cognitive strategies in problem solving / Guy Cellerier -- Some clarifications on innatism and constructivism (...)
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    Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds.Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 1996 - Wiley.
    "Fascinating and insightful.... I cannot recall a book that has made me think more about the nature of thinking." -- Richard C. Lewontin Harvard University Everyone knows that optical illusions trick us because of the way we see. Now scientists have discovered that cognitive illusions, a set of biases deeply embedded in the human mind, can actually distort the way we think. In Inevitable Illusions, distinguished cognitive researcher Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini takes us on a provocative, challenging, and thoroughly (...)
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  3. Evolution, selection, and cognition: From learning to parameter setting in biology and in the study of language.Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 1989 - Cognition 31 (1):1-44.
    Most biologists and some cognitive scientists have independently reached the conclusion that there is no such thing as learning in the traditional “instructive‘ sense. This is, admittedly, a somewhat extreme thesis, but I defend it herein the light of data and theories jointly extracted from biology, especially from evolutionary theory and immunology, and from modern generative grammar. I also point out that the general demise of learning is uncontroversial in the biological sciences, while a similar consensus has not yet been (...)
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  4. Language and Learning: The Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky.Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 1983 - Mind 92 (365):138-140.
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  5. Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds.Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini & Martin Gardner - 1995 - Nature 374 (6517):25.
     
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  6. The rise of selective theories: A case study and some lessons from immunology.Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 1986 - In William Demopoulos (ed.), Language Learning and Concept Acquisition: Foundational Issues. Ablex.
  7. Ever since language and learning: afterthoughts on the Piaget-Chomsky debate.Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 1994 - Cognition 50 (1-3):315-346.
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    Somebody flew over Searle's ontological prison.Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 1990 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (4):618-619.
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    An ideological battle over modals and quantifiers.Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 1990 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (4):752-754.
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    Events and Conservativity: Clues towards Language Evolution.Massimo Piattelli Palmarini - 2008 - In Maria Cristina Amoretti & Nicla Vassallo (eds.), Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation: On the Philosophy of Donald Davidson. Ontos Verlag. pp. 81-106.
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    Arguments in the syntactic straitjacket.Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini & Heidi Harley - 2003 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (3):297-298.
    While the search for the neural basis of the language of thought is a laudable enterprise, and the article by Hurford a valiant first attempt, we argue that in investigating the argument structure of natural language it will ultimately prove more fruitful to consider the restrictions forced on the system by its inherently syntactic character.
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    Language as ergonomic perfection.Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Roeland Hancock & Thomas Bever - 2008 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (5):530-531.
    Christiansen & Chater (C&C) have taken the interactionist approach to linguistic universals to an extreme, adopting the metaphor of language as an organism. This metaphor adds no insights to five decades of analyzing language universals as the result of interaction of linguistically unique and general cognitive systems. This metaphor is also based on an outmoded view of classical Darwinian evolution and has no clear basis in biology or cognition.
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    Livelli di realtà.Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini & A. J. Ayer (eds.) - 1987 - Milano: Feltrinelli.
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    Minds with meanings.Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 2020 - Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 11 (1):1-18.
    : Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn have proposed a purely referential-causal semantics, a semantics without meanings. Adopting Pylyshyn’s previous treatment of the fact that we can perceive and track something before we have any idea of what that is, these authors claim that such causal relations to external entities allow us to word-label them and thereby build an entire lexicon with specific referents. I disagree and explain why I do so. The kind of semantics that I prefer is radically opposite: (...)
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    Ritrattino di Kant a uso di mio figlio.Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 1994 - Milano: A. Mondadori. Edited by Simone Piattelli Palmarini.
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    Which came first, the egg-problem or the hen-solution?Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 1990 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (1):84-86.
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    trad. it. di Vittorio B. Sala, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2010, pp. 272. Il titolo di questo libro (nell'originale: What Darwin Got Wrong) fa pensare a una tirata anti-evoluzionista nella linea dei Darwin on trial, The Deniable Darwin ecc. Per un testo critico nei confronti di. [REVIEW]Jerry A. Fodor–Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 2010 - Rivista di Filosofia 101 (3).
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    Innateness, abstract names, and syntactic cues in how children learn the meanings of words.Heidi Harley & Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 2001 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (6):1107-1108.
    Bloom masterfully captures the state-of-the-art in the study of lexical acquisition. He also exposes the extent of our ignorance about the learning of names for non-observables. HCLMW adopts an innatist position without adopting modularity of mind; however, it seems likely that modularity is needed to bridge the gap between object names and the rest of the lexicon.
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    Many important language universals are not reducible to processing or cognition.David P. Medeiros, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini & Thomas G. Bever - 2016 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39:e86.
    Christiansen & Chater (C&C) ignore the many linguistic universals that cannot be reduced to processing or cognitive constraints, some of which we present. Their claim that grammar is merely acquired language processing skill cannot account for such universals. Their claim that all other universal properties are historically and culturally based is a nonsequitur about language evolution, lacking data.
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  20. Théories du langage, Théories de l'apprentissage. Centre Royaumont pour une science de l'homme, Ed. du Seuil, 1 vol.Jean Piaget, Noam Chomsky & Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 1980 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 170 (1):74-75.
     
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    Even deeper problems with neural network models of language.Thomas G. Bever, Noam Chomsky, Sandiway Fong & Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 2023 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46:e387.
    We recognize today's deep neural network (DNN) models of language behaviors as engineering achievements. However, what we know intuitively and scientifically about language shows that what DNNs are and how they are trained on bare texts, makes them poor models of mind and brain for language organization, as it interacts with infant biology, maturation, experience, unique principles, and natural law.
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    Broca's aphasia, broca's area, and syntax: A complex relationship.Stefano F. Cappa, Andrea Moro, Daniela Perani & Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - 2000 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (1):27-28.
    Three types of problems are raised in this commentary: On the linguistic side, we emphasize the importance of an appropriate definition of the different domains of linguistics. This is needed to define the domains (lexicon-syntax-semantics) to which transformational relations apply. We then question the concept of Broca's aphasia as a “functional” syndrome, associated with a specific lesion. Finally, we discuss evidence from functional brain imaging. The breadth and potential impact of such evidence has grown considerably in the last few years, (...)
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  23. OCk, athryn, 163 Byrne, Ruth MJ, 61 Cosmides, Leda, 187 Garnham, Alan, 45, 117.P. N. Johnson-Laird, Jane Oakhill, Josef Perner, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Lance J. Rips, Jennifer A. Sanderson, Michael Siegal & Yohtaro Takano - 1989 - Cognition 31:295.
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    Review of Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini: Language and Learning: The Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky[REVIEW]William Hare - 1982 - Ethics 92 (3):574-576.
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    Massimo Piattelli Palmarini, La réforme du jugement ou comment ne plus se tromper, Paris, Éditions Odile Jacob, 1995. [REVIEW]Luc-André Abraham - 1996 - Horizons Philosophiques 7 (1):125.
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    Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini. What Darwin Got Wrong. Reviewed by.Henry Byerly - 2010 - Philosophy in Review 30 (4):255-258.
  27. Critica della ragione economica - Matteo Motterlini & Massimo Piattelli Palmarini[REVIEW]Alberto Binazzi - 2009 - Humana Mente 3 (10).
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    Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini; Keith Botsford. [REVIEW]Edward Manier - 1997 - Isis 88:582-583.
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    Risky Business: What Darwin Got Wrong Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. [REVIEW]Davide Vecchi - 2010 - Biological Theory 5 (2):187-193.
  30. What Darwin Got Wrong. [REVIEW]Massimo Pigliucci - 2010 - Philosophy Now 81:38-39.
    What Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini got wrong about Darwin and evolution.
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  31. A misguided attack on evolution. [REVIEW]Massimo Pigliucci - 2010 - Nature 464:353-354.
    Why Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini are wrong about Darwin and evolution.
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  32. The fractionation of miracles.M. Piattelli-Palmarini & T. G. Bever - forthcoming - Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
     
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  33. Natural selection, causality, and laws: What Fodor and piatelli-palmarini got wrong.Elliott Sober - 2010 - Philosophy of Science 77 (4):594-607.
    In their book What Darwin Got Wrong, Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini construct an a priori philosophical argument and an empirical biological argument. The biological argument aims to show that natural selection is much less important in the evolutionary process than many biologists maintain. The a priori argument begins with the claim that there cannot be selection for one but not the other of two traits that are perfectly correlated in a population; it concludes that there cannot (...)
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    What Darwin got wrong.Jerry A. Fodor - 2010 - New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Edited by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini.
    This book dares to challenge natural selection--not in the name of religion but in the name of good science. Most scientists are so terrified of religious attacks on the theory of evolution that it is never examined critically. There are significant scientific and philosophical problems with the theory of natural selection. Darwin claimed the factors that determine the course of evolution are very largely environmental. Empirical results in biology are increasingly calling this thesis into question. The authors show that Darwinism (...)
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  35. Fodor and the innateness of all (basic) concepts.Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini - 2017 - In Roberto G. De Almeida & Lila R. Gleitman (eds.), On Concepts, Modules, and Language: Cognitive Science at its Core. New York, NY: Oup Usa.
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    Sélection sémantique et sélection naturelle le rôle causal du lexique.Massimo Piaitelli-Palmarini - 1990 - Revue de Synthèse 111 (1-2):57-94.
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    Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, Juan Uriagereka and Pello Salaburu, eds. , Of Minds and Language: A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country . Reviewed by.David Kirkby - 2011 - Philosophy in Review 31 (2):138-141.
  38. Alguien, en efecto, ha debido malinterpretar Algo: El desafío de Fodor Y piattelli-palmarini al darwinismo1.Antonio Diéguez - 2011 - Ludus Vitalis 19 (35):341-357.
     
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  39. Alguien, en efecto, ha debido malinterpretar algo: el desafío de Fodor y Piattelli-Palmarini al darwinismo.Antonio Javier Diéguez Lucena - 2011 - Ludus Vitalis 19 (35):341-357.
     
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  40. Alguien, en efecto, ha debido malinterpretar algo: El desafío de Fodor y Piattelli-Palmarini al darwinismo.Got Wrong - 2011 - Ludus Vitalis 19 (35).
     
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  41. "Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky", Edited by M. Piattelli-Palmarini[REVIEW]S. Haroutunian - 1983 - Mind 92:138.
  42. Who Got What Wrong? Fodor and Piattelli on Darwin: Guiding Principles and Explanatory Models in Natural Selection.José Díez & Pablo Lorenzano - 2013 - Erkenntnis 78 (5):1143-1175.
    The purpose of this paper is to defend, contra Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini (F&PP), that the theory of natural selection (NS) is a perfectly bona fide empirical unified explanatory theory. F&PP claim there is nothing non-truistic, counterfactual-supporting, of an “adaptive” character and common to different explanations of trait evolution. In his debate with Fodor, and in other works, Sober defends NS but claims that, compared with classical mechanics (CM) and other standard theories, NS is peculiar in that its explanatory (...)
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    Natural selection and operative conditioning: a critique of Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini's analogy.Julio Torres Meléndez - 2015 - Scientiae Studia 13 (3):599-614.
    RESUMENMe propongo examinar críticamente la analogía entre selección natural y condicionamiento operante que Fodor y Piattelli-Palmarini utilizan para sostener que los mismos argumentos que desacreditan la teoría conductista desacreditan la teoría de la selección natural. Estas teorías no son independientes ni conceptual ni históricamente y, por eso, no es razonable hacer una analogía entre ambas con las intenciones que se proponen Fodor y Piattelli-Palmarini. La selección natural es una condición causal del me­ca­nismo de condicionamiento operante, motivo (...)
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  44. Ending the Rationality Wars: How to Make Disputes about Human Rationality Disappear.Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich & Michael Bishop - 2002 - In Renée Elio (ed.), Common sense, reasoning, & rationality. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 236-268.
    During the last 25 years, researchers studying human reasoning and judgment in what has become known as the “heuristics and biases” tradition have produced an impressive body of experimental work which many have seen as having “bleak implications” for the rationality of ordinary people (Nisbett and Borgida 1975). According to one proponent of this view, when we reason about probability we fall victim to “inevitable illusions” (Piattelli-Palmarini 1994). Other proponents maintain that the human mind is prone to “systematic (...)
     
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    Biologia to nie machanie rękami.Szymon Drobniak - 2018 - Philosophical Problems in Science 65:213-219.
    Recenzja książki: J. Fodor, M. Piattelli-Palmarini, _Błąd Darwina_, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN 2018.
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    Rhyme and Reason: An Introduction to Minimalist Syntax.Juan Uriagereka - 2000 - MIT Press.
    This unusual book takes the form of a dialogue between a linguist and another scientist. This unusual book takes the form of a dialogue between a linguist and another scientist. The dialogue takes place over six days, with each day devoted to a particular topic--and the ensuing digressions. The role of the linguist is to present the fundamentals of the minimalist program of contemporary generative grammar. Although the linguist serves essentially as a voice for Noam Chomsky's ideas, he is not (...)
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  47. An Extended Synthesis for Evolutionary Biology.Massimo Pigliucci - 2009 - Annals of the New York Academy of Science 1168:218-228.
    Evolutionary theory is undergoing an intense period of discussion and reevaluation. This, contrary to the misleading claims of creationists and other pseudoscientists, is no harbinger of a crisis but rather the opposite: the field is expanding dramatically in terms of both empirical discoveries and new ideas. In this essay I briefly trace the conceptual history of evolutionary theory from Darwinism to neo-Darwinism, and from the Modern Synthesis to what I refer to as the Extended Synthesis, a more inclusive conceptual framework (...)
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  48. Do we need an extended evolutionary synthesis?Massimo Pigliucci - 2007 - Evolution 61 (12):2743-2749.
    The Modern Synthesis (MS) is the current paradigm in evolutionary biology. It was actually built by expanding on the conceptual foundations laid out by its predecessors, Darwinism and neo-Darwinism. For sometime now there has been talk of a new Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES), and this article begins to outline why we may need such an extension, and how it may come about. As philosopher Karl Popper has noticed, the current evolutionary theory is a theory of genes, and we still lack (...)
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  49. Is evolvability evolvable?Massimo Pigliucci - 2008 - Nature Reviews Genetics 9:75-82.
    In recent years, biologists have increasingly been asking whether the ability to evolve — the evolvability — of biological systems, itself evolves, and whether this phenomenon is the result of natural selection or a by-product of other evolutionary processes. The concept of evolvability, and the increasing theoretical and empirical literature that refers to it, may constitute one of several pillars on which an extended evolutionary synthesis will take shape during the next few years, although much work remains to be done (...)
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  50. On the concept of biological race and its applicability to humans.Massimo Pigliucci & Jonathan Kaplan - 2003 - Philosophy of Science 70 (5):1161-1172.
    Biological research on race has often been seen as motivated by or lending credence to underlying racist attitudes; in part for this reason, recently philosophers and biologists have gone through great pains to essentially deny the existence of biological human races. We argue that human races, in the biological sense of local populations adapted to particular environments, do in fact exist; such races are best understood through the common ecological concept of ecotypes. However, human ecotypic races do not in general (...)
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