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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kristeva, the director of the Doctoral Programin Language, Literatures and Civilizations at theUniversity of Paris, is a noted literary theoristand linguist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honorands Include Cartoonist, Economist | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

Robert Skinner Boyd '49 has always been a linguist...

Author: By Robert Boyd, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reporting for Duty: Boyd Brings Honor to Journalism | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Robert Skinner Boyd '49 has always been a linguist...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reporting for Duty: Robert Boyd Brings Decency to Four Decades of D.C. Journalism | 5/28/1999 | See Source »

...rights have seen same-gender sex as a uniquely human phenomenon, one of the many ways our famously corruptible species flouts the laws of nature. But nature's morality, it seems, may be remarkably flexible, at least if the new book Biological Exuberance (St. Martin's Press), by linguist and cognitive scientist Bruce Bagemihl, is to be believed. According to Bagemihl, the animal kingdom is a more sexually complex place than most people know--one where couplings routinely take place not just between male-female pairs but also between male-male and female-female ones. What's more, same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gay Side of Nature | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...there is dissent even within the "ultra-Darwinist" ranks. M.I.T. linguist Steven Pinker finds the ideas of memetics intriguing and occasionally even useful but doesn't quite believe it's a science. Nor does he accept the nest-of-memes view of consciousness. "To be honest, I don't even know what that means," admits Pinker. The problem, he says, is that memetics assumes the brain is essentially passive, like a Petri dish awaiting infection. It doesn't account for the self that responds subjectively, that feels sensations such as love, envy and pain. "Babies are conscious," he points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Mind Just a Vehicle for Virulent Notions? | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

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