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1 fodor on pinker [1 of 2] (was Re: [lbo-talk] Altruism ... -- rank: 1000

Agreed that the Fodor article is a good read. It would take me some ... adaptationist accounts of the pretty songs birds sing. -- Luke Quoting ravi <gadfly at exitleft.org>: > > > posted below y'day but was ... suggest you follow link to read the rest of it. > > --ravi > > http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Abstracts/Fodor_on_Pinker_98.html > > The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism > Jerry Fodor > > How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker > Evolution in Mind ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 30 10:44:03 PST 2004

2 fodor on pinker [1 of 2] (was Re: [lbo-talk] Altruism ... -- rank: 865

... suggest you follow link to read the rest of it. --ravi http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Abstracts/Fodor_on_Pinker_98.html The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism Jerry Fodor How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker Evolution in Mind ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 30 09:51:30 PST 2004

3 [lbo-talk] Chomsky's true views on language and evolution exposed? -- rank: 808

At around 8/6/06 6:24 am, Arash wrote: > -0400 "Luke Weiger" <lweiger at umich.edu> > writes: >> What Arash writes below is correct. I hasten to add, though, that >> Pinker et >> al. are right--if Chomsky's view of our capacity for language is >> correct >> (and most everyone agrees it ...

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4 [lbo-talk] Several responses to references to me, on LBO -- rank: 808

... from Sen: > > Sounds suspiciously "patriotic" coming from an Internationalist of > Ravi's impeccable credentials. > ;-) But you failed to really read the ...

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5 [lbo-talk] Kenneally, some notes and background -- rank: 775

... demolished by Hume even later.) --- On Thu, 6/11/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote: > From: ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Kenneally, some notes ... wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:45:43 -0400 > > ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> > wrote: > > > >> I too find the "poverty ...

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6 It's Greek To Me (Was Re: [lbo-talk] slavery and technology) -- rank: 775

... the others, Dennett's the worst, he's just unreadable. Fodor has gotten worse over the years. He's at Rutgers now, isn't he? Or did move to NYU? --- ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote: > At around 17/12/06 9 ... don't understand. > > > > Yes, I noticed the tendency in law. > > > > Fodor's a > > total fraud about this, I don't believe ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 18 13:25:07 PST 2006

7 [lbo-talk] Chomsky's true views on language and evolution exposed? -- rank: 691

Ravi, You left out my favorite part of Jerry Fodor's criticism or perhaps you posted it previously: Call this "Psychological Darwinism as Conspiracy Theory". Jerry Fodor says: "A lot of the fun of Pinker's book ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 8 10:12:02 PDT 2006

8 It's Greek To Me (Was Re: [lbo-talk] slavery and technology) -- rank: 691

... could barely recall bits of from my Catholic school years. . . .) Fodor's a total fraud about this, I don't believe he knows Latin at all. --- ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote: > At around 16/12/06 6 ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 16 19:36:41 PST 2006

9 [lbo-talk] Critical Thinkign, was Free online courses -- rank: 691

... history of science bears this last bit out and perhaps > Ravi can chime in here as well to back me up ...

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10 [lbo-talk] Is Sex Fun for Girls? --> Sociobiology, Sex, and History -- rank: 640

Ravi, the quoted statement directly contradicts the statement with which you ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Jan 23 12:43:18 PST 2007

11 [lbo-talk] Kenneally, some notes and background -- rank: 640

On Jun 11, 2009, at 12:16 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > > If we're materialists, we have to assume -- don't we? -- > that language has some physical basis in the heads and/or > bodies of the people who do language. Is it so far-fetched > to think that whatever that basis ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 11 08:45:43 PDT 2009

12 [lbo-talk] munchers -- rank: 578

... wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:18:14 -0400 > ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote: > >> I tend to think of the ...

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13 [lbo-talk] Altruism -- rank: 578

... Aug 11, 2011, at 5:19 PM, c b wrote: > // ravi ravi at > >> In any case, altruism is basically glorified empathy > > Wilson ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 11 14:36:42 PDT 2011

14 [lbo-talk] Kenneally, some notes and background -- rank: 578

... wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:45:43 -0400 > ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote: > >> I too find the "poverty of ...

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15 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 578

... wrote: > On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 21:12:21 -0500 > // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote: > >> Your post reminds me of Philip ... s adaptationism when it comes to cognition/psychology, there is Fodor's The Mind Doesn't Work That Way (even the ... led to the book suffices to demonstrate Pinker's overreaches). -- ravi > (Pinker gets his 'umble toiler's paycheck from Harvard, > that ...

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