Language has various mechanisms to show relationships among and between ideas. At the level of discourse, for example, a writer communicates the relative importance of individual ideas by expressing ...

In some ways, learning to program a computer is similar to learning a new language. It requires learning new symbols and terms, which must be organized correctly to instruct the computer what to do.

In an extension of their recent study that found a relationship between learning a foreign language and rational thinking, researchers at the University of Chicago are looking for situations in which ...

Previously, I mentioned what David Chalmers has called the "hard problem of consciousness," meaning the difficulty of explaining human consciousness in objective, scientific terms because of the ...

The main goal of this paper is to investigate what explanatory resources Robert Brandom's distinction between acknowledged and consequential commitments affords in relation to the problem of logical ...