Philip Laughlin
@philiplaughlin.bsky.social
I read email. I write email. Occasionally, I ignore email.
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The duality of man
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January 19, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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Intuitive Theories by Frank Keil: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.9666c9f2
January 19, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Intuitive Theories by Frank Keil: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.9666c9f2
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Primate Communication by Katja Liebal: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.54c9be0b
January 18, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Primate Communication by Katja Liebal: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.54c9be0b
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Cognitive Variability by Rogier A. Kievit: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.0fce3550
January 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Cognitive Variability by Rogier A. Kievit: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.0fce3550
"Fischhoff’s new book is published by @mitpress.bsky.social. Schwartz’s is published by @yalepress.bsky.social. These are the 10th Degree Black Belts in the psychology of decision-making. There is no higher level. And yet, they fundamentally disagree."
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Decisions, Decisions - 3 Quarks Daily
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January 16, 2026 at 2:59 PM
"Fischhoff’s new book is published by @mitpress.bsky.social. Schwartz’s is published by @yalepress.bsky.social. These are the 10th Degree Black Belts in the psychology of decision-making. There is no higher level. And yet, they fundamentally disagree."
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Iconicity by David M. Sidhu: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.515b2685
January 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Iconicity by David M. Sidhu: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.515b2685
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Essential reading on how the brain makes language possible, @gregoryhickok.bsky.social's "Wired for Words" provides a critical synthesis of over 150 years of research to build a new understanding of the neural architecture of the brain’s language system: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...
January 15, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Essential reading on how the brain makes language possible, @gregoryhickok.bsky.social's "Wired for Words" provides a critical synthesis of over 150 years of research to build a new understanding of the neural architecture of the brain’s language system: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...
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congrats to @dryan149.bsky.social for being featured in Purdue Today 🥳🥳🥳
January 15, 2026 at 4:01 PM
congrats to @dryan149.bsky.social for being featured in Purdue Today 🥳🥳🥳
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Announcing the shortlists for the second annual MIT Press Faculty and Alumni Book Awards! This year’s shortlisted titles exemplify the intellectual ambition, creativity, and impact that define the MIT community.
Winners will be announced in April 9th: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres....
Winners will be announced in April 9th: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres....
January 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Announcing the shortlists for the second annual MIT Press Faculty and Alumni Book Awards! This year’s shortlisted titles exemplify the intellectual ambition, creativity, and impact that define the MIT community.
Winners will be announced in April 9th: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres....
Winners will be announced in April 9th: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres....
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Compositionality by Christopher Potts: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.494deacd
January 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Compositionality by Christopher Potts: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.494deacd
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2 new books today 👀 1 recommended by @jyoshimi.bsky.social and one written by him! 🥳 📖 🧠
January 14, 2026 at 10:15 PM
2 new books today 👀 1 recommended by @jyoshimi.bsky.social and one written by him! 🥳 📖 🧠
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Was a genuine pleasure to be on The Michael Brian Show!
"Creating True Social Change"
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"Creating True Social Change"
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January 13, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Was a genuine pleasure to be on The Michael Brian Show!
"Creating True Social Change"
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"Creating True Social Change"
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Today is publication release date for "Robophilosophy" edited by Johanna Seibt, @raulhakli.bsky.social and Marco Nørskov. My contribution (chapter one) is titled "The Machine Question: Rethinking Moral Philosophy in the Face of Others." @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204498...
January 13, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Today is publication release date for "Robophilosophy" edited by Johanna Seibt, @raulhakli.bsky.social and Marco Nørskov. My contribution (chapter one) is titled "The Machine Question: Rethinking Moral Philosophy in the Face of Others." @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204498...
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A serious honor to join the @casbsstanford.bsky.social podcast with @dryan149.bsky.social. Thanks a million to Damon Centola for asking great questions and to Mike Gaetani for setting it up. @madva.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE
Your Field Guide for Creating Social Change
Timely! @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social (CASBS fellow 2019-20) & @dryan149.bsky.social (2018-19) discuss their book "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Create Social Change" w/Damon Centola (2014-15)
🎧 bit.ly/459VSVL
Your Field Guide for Creating Social Change
Timely! @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social (CASBS fellow 2019-20) & @dryan149.bsky.social (2018-19) discuss their book "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Create Social Change" w/Damon Centola (2014-15)
🎧 bit.ly/459VSVL
January 13, 2026 at 7:05 PM
A serious honor to join the @casbsstanford.bsky.social podcast with @dryan149.bsky.social. Thanks a million to Damon Centola for asking great questions and to Mike Gaetani for setting it up. @madva.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
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🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE
Your Field Guide for Creating Social Change
Timely! @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social (CASBS fellow 2019-20) & @dryan149.bsky.social (2018-19) discuss their book "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Create Social Change" w/Damon Centola (2014-15)
🎧 bit.ly/459VSVL
Your Field Guide for Creating Social Change
Timely! @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social (CASBS fellow 2019-20) & @dryan149.bsky.social (2018-19) discuss their book "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Create Social Change" w/Damon Centola (2014-15)
🎧 bit.ly/459VSVL
January 13, 2026 at 5:03 PM
🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE
Your Field Guide for Creating Social Change
Timely! @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social (CASBS fellow 2019-20) & @dryan149.bsky.social (2018-19) discuss their book "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Create Social Change" w/Damon Centola (2014-15)
🎧 bit.ly/459VSVL
Your Field Guide for Creating Social Change
Timely! @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social (CASBS fellow 2019-20) & @dryan149.bsky.social (2018-19) discuss their book "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Create Social Change" w/Damon Centola (2014-15)
🎧 bit.ly/459VSVL
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Transformers by Raphaël Millière: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.d3acfbfb
January 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Transformers by Raphaël Millière: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.d3acfbfb
January 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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Sentence Processing by Matthew Wagers: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.624d819a
January 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Sentence Processing by Matthew Wagers: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.624d819a
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Intellectual humility, an awareness of and appropriate attentiveness to one’s personal intellectual limitations. Professor of psychology Elizabeth J. Krumrei-Mancuso breaks this concept down in her article for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science:
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Intellectual Humility
Intellectual humility (IH) can be defined as an awareness of and appropriate attentiveness to one’s personal intellectual limitations. IH is a young concept: the term started being used in the 2010s,…
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January 10, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Intellectual humility, an awareness of and appropriate attentiveness to one’s personal intellectual limitations. Professor of psychology Elizabeth J. Krumrei-Mancuso breaks this concept down in her article for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science:
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@oecs-bot.bsky.social
Confirming that the rumors are true!
January 10, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Confirming that the rumors are true!
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Linguistic Variation by Evan Kidd: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.e223a86b
January 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Linguistic Variation by Evan Kidd: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.e223a86b
The first @mitpress.bsky.social book has been claimed at #LSA2026: David McNeill's LANGUAGE IS GESTURE.
January 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The first @mitpress.bsky.social book has been claimed at #LSA2026: David McNeill's LANGUAGE IS GESTURE.
Once again, not everything you read on social media is fake news!
January 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Once again, not everything you read on social media is fake news!
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My new book is available open access from MITPress. It's a pretty new take on syntax, with some cool consequences for long-distance syntactic dependencies, and I think it should also appeal to non-minimalist syntacticians (since there isn't really any movement!) direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Mereological Syntax: Phrase Structure, Cyclicity, and Islands
An argument for replacing Chomsky’s set-theoretic Merge view of syntax with a theory of syntax based on mereological objects.Mereology is the study of part
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January 9, 2026 at 1:32 PM
My new book is available open access from MITPress. It's a pretty new take on syntax, with some cool consequences for long-distance syntactic dependencies, and I think it should also appeal to non-minimalist syntacticians (since there isn't really any movement!) direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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Gesture by Spencer D. Kelly: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.441037e5
January 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Gesture by Spencer D. Kelly: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.441037e5