Linguistics professor Jessica Rett gets curious with Jonathan Van Ness
In a podcast interview, Rett explains how she uses logic to model what people know when they know the meaning of language.
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Frankenstein: The enduring appeal of Mary Shelley’s 200-year-old creation
English professor Anne Mellor reflects on the lasting influence of and impetus behind the author’s iconic monster.
Alain Mabanckou’s novel ‘Black Moses’ wins 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
Judges called the book “a funny, efficiently-rendered picaresque tale” that “superbly traces the hero’s psychic collapse.”
How a UCLA philosophy professor helped construct ‘The Good Place’
How did the philosophically grounded NBC fantasy-comedy get things so right? One reason is that Pamela Hieronymi was a consultant on the show.