It was a great honour to present the Toyama International Philosophy seminar @ Waseda University in Tokyo.
Spoke on Linguistic Relativity, LLMs, & Cognition. Excellent discussion after at the home of the first ever robot WABOT-1! #Philsky #AI

Get it while it's hot (and free)! cup.org/46WiElu This book tells a story of what if the philosophy of science didn't start with the study of atoms or the cosmos but human language. #philsky #booksky

Like philosophy of linguistics and free stuff? Then boy do I have an opportunity for you!
This book - by my friend @ryannefdt.bsky.social - is available for download for free for the next two weeks. Get on it!
#PhilSky #Linguistics

Get it while it's hot (and free)! cup.org/46WiElu This book tells a story of what if the philosophy of science didn't start with the study of atoms or the cosmos but human language. #philsky #booksky

Be sure to check our symposium on non-human language (from all angles!) at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social #ISHPSSB2025 #philsci virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73530/...

Covering a wide range of fields and theoretical perspectives, this book provides a novel philosophical account of theoretical linguistics.

The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics by @ryannefdt.bsky.social

#LangSky #Philosophy 💙📚 #Linguistiics

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See you tomorrow, San Diego!

If anyone is in the Edmonton area tomorrow, Jeff Pelletier and I will be chatting about our new book academic.oup.com/book/59889?l... @oupphilosophy.bsky.social at Edmonton's oldest bookstore Audrey's: audreys.ca/events. Do stop by! @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social

Thanks to Evan Kidd, @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social (Eds) for organizing the awesome *Open* Encyc. of Cog. Sci. and entrusting me with/ the honor of penning the entry on "Language" (in < 3500 words, so do see other entries for much, MUCH more!)
oecs.mit.edu/pub/ho9e9c80...

Philosophers: spread the word!! Full-time research postdoc, 3 year job in St Andrews-Arché within the Leverhulme-funded WIKI project:

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply by clicking the link above, *check* the Further Particulars attachment there for details. Deadline: May 2.

Compositionality by Ryan M. Nefdt: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.494deacd

New book with the amazing cog scientist Jeff Pelletier just dropped with @oupphilosophy.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/book/59889?l.... We discuss the issue of language and thought, LLMs, linguistics, and the history and future of an utterly indefatigable idea!

Had a wonderful chat with Carrie Figdor on my @cambridgeup.bsky.social book the Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Link here: shorturl.at/BA8Mt

So, I was appointed Editor-in-Chief at Biology & Philosophy in January. It is a huge honour and I am really proud to be the first philosopHer in the role. Thank you to Michael Weisberg, out going EiC, for all his hard work for the journal over many years - they are big shoes to fill.

LMs need linguistics! New paper, with @futrell.bsky.social, on LMs and linguistics that conveys our excitement about what the present moment means for linguistics and what linguistics can do for LMs. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2501.17047. 🧵below.

Article on compositionality with @cgpotts.bsky.social in the new MIT Open encyclopedia of cognitive science! Check it out here: oecs.mit.edu/pub/e222wyjy.... Thanks to @asifamajid.bsky.social and Michael Frank for the opportunity!

Trying to decide between these covers for our upcoming book with OUP. First seems neater but too textbooky...