‘Speaking Our Minds’ Book Club June-July 2015

From mid-June to mid-July 2015, the ICCI website has hosted a Book Club devoted to Thom Scott-Phillips’ book, Speaking Our Mind. The book has received positive reviews in various media, including the Times Literary Supplement (read Richard Moore’s review here), and has been called “an amazing job” (Stuart West),“the most important and best book ever written on the evolution of language” (Dan Sperber).

The participants were:

Thom Scott-Phillips (with a précis of his book; see also his concluding remarks)

Alberto Acerbi (his post)

Clark Barrett (his post)

Bart de Boer (his post)

Greg Bryant (his post)

Mathieu Charbonneau (his post)

Liz Irvine (her post)

Katja Liebal (her post)

Richard Moore (his post)

Olivier Morin (his post)

Ira Noveck & Tiffany Morisseau (their post)

Karolina Prochownik (her post)

Kenny Smith (his post)

Paulo Sousa & Karolina Prochownik (their post)

Dan Sperber (his post)

Tim Wharton (his post)

Deirdre Wilson (her post)

Tad Zawidzki (his post)

The book club was organized by Olivier Morin, with the assistance of Tiffany Morisseau, the webmistress of this site, and Dan Sperber. Thanks to Nicolas Claidière and Andrea Jenei for their help on solving technical issues.

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