The biolinguistic thesis states that language is a biological system internal to an individual of the species Homo sapiens sapiens for generating structured linguistic expressions over a potentially unbounded range; the design of the system is determined by a genetic endowment, external stimuli, and natural laws. With such an expansive scope, the thesis can be thoroughly explored only through interdisciplinary enterprises—the organization of which is the desideratum of the Cambridge Biolinguistics Initiative (CBI). We welcome you to participate in this most exciting endeavor. (Continue this manifesto.)

09 March 2011

Meeting Monday 14 March (6:15 PM on the dot)

The Cambridge Biolinguistics Initiative is to reconvene on Monday 14 March at 6:15PM (on the dot).  Professor Simon Blackburn of the Cambridge Philosophy Department is to present.  We will read Blackburn's response to Professor Marc Hauser's (quite lengthy) Tanner Lectures. 


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