For decades, the idea that your language shapes your thought (the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) was academic poison, blamed on sloppy anecdotes about Hopi verb tenses. Then a generation of cognitive scientists, Lera Boroditsky chief among them, built careful experiments and found real, measurable effects: how you talk about space, time, color, and blame changes what you notice and remember. This course covers the fall, the rehabilitation, and what actually survived peer review.
IACSInt'l Academy for Consciousness Studies