Books by Benjamin Lee Whorf
“He’s famous for arguing that languages affect your thinking and reasoning and behavior in different ways. It’s the idea that the language you speak determines how you think. He doesn’t ever really put it quite that strongly. As is often the case, a lot of those who critique him haven’t read the work that closely” Read more...
The best books on Language and Post-Truth
Nick Enfield, Linguist
Interviews where books by Benjamin Lee Whorf were recommended
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Language, Thought, and Reality
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The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality
by Karl Popper -
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
by David Deutsch -
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Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
by Hugo Mercier -
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The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
by Julia Galef
The best books on Language and Post-Truth, recommended by Nick Enfield
The best books on Language and Post-Truth, recommended by Nick Enfield
The word ‘post-truth’ may only have entered the Oxford English Dictionary in the last decade, but the phenomenon it describes is much older and deeper, connected not so much to the latest internet trend as the fundamentals of human cognition and communication. Here, linguistic anthropologist Nick Enfield, a professor at the University of Sydney and a member of its fighting truth decay research node, introduces the best books to get thinking about the complex relationship between language and reality.
