1. "Some preliminaries"
Seely and Epstein propose to explain questions like: What is the object of inquiry in biolinguistic minimalism?, What methods are used in exploring this object (the language), and in just what sense are they "scientific" and "biological"? and Can anatomy and phisiology be concepts pertinent to linguistics, construed as a cognitive sciencie; and if so, what explanatory benefits might this provide the linguist?
