Tripp York

Project Nim [Chimpsky]: Why Wittgenstein is Still Right

Chimps, children’s books, horny psychology professors, and shoddy theories in linguistics. It’s a recipe for disaster. The recent documentary Project Nim details the story of researchers attempting to discover whether or not a chimp can learn human language. Chimps, armadillos, aardvarks, and marmokrebs are not going to learn human language anymore than we are going […]