Katz 's new clothes Katz's new view about language and linguistics comes in two parts: platonism and nonreductionism. Those of us who have been skeptical about the empirical basis for claims that have arisen from within linguistics will welcome Katz's defection to our side in respect of platonism, but we will be dismayed by his refusal to adopt the rest of our methodology concerning reductionis...

Recent years have seen a wave of interest in connections between neuroscience and the models and generalizations of neoclassical and behavioral economics. Interdisciplinary investigations of decision-making in humans and non-human animals have yielded a flagship neuroeconomics textbook (Glimcher, et al. 2009), hundreds of journal articles, and high-profile academic conferences. They have also a...

"To observe and record for mankind" has long been the ideal of biologists and physicians. Noble as it may be, it ignores a fundamental requirement of all observation. Observation without knowledge is both futile and sterile; observation with knowledge is the stuff of science. It is clear that no observer then can know too much, yet there are in the field of biology innumerable workers who boast...