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16 It's Greek To Me (Was Re: [lbo-talk] slavery and technology) -- rank: 499

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, ravi wrote: > I am not sure how much worse [Fodor] has become considering > Psychosemantics (from a few years ago) was ... much hard work as this > one is! BTW, fwiw, when Fodor writes about opera, he's not only not opaque, he ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sun Dec 24 22:42:36 PST 2006

17 [lbo-talk] Essential Reading - Hah! -- rank: 499

... for example, I'll probably read the Lewontin book on ravi's list. > Yay! It s a great little book. Another great little book: Fodor s The Mind Doesn t Work That Way. ravi

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Date:	Sat Feb 4 18:43:15 PST 2012

18 [lbo-talk] Altruism & Evolution? -- rank: 499

Miles Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, ravi wrote: > >> given the significance of altruism as a trait, i ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 1 13:05:47 PST 2004

19 [lbo-talk] Re: Biology and Society -- rank: 499

On 5/30/06, Louis Kontos <lkontos at mac.com> wrote: > At the same time, most of what we call > human behavior has the quality of social action, in that it is > ritualistic, oriented toward the expectations and judgments of > others, and full of surprises. It is surprising, for instance, that ...

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Author:	Jerry Monaco
Date:	Wed May 31 07:14:14 PDT 2006

20 Biology and Society (Re: [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill responds to U. of Colorado investigation] -- rank: 499

... than an > American Enterprise Institute speaker (Pinker) and Summers apologist. > > --ravi Ravi is mostly correct, even though he might be surprised to ... are making comments about reproductive "strategies" in general. Besides Jerry Fodor in LRB I would also like to recommend Allen Orr ...

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Date:	Tue May 30 12:26:17 PDT 2006

21 It's Greek To Me (Was Re: [lbo-talk] slavery and technology) -- rank: 499

... don't understand. > Yes, I noticed the tendency in law. > Fodor's a > total fraud about this, I don't believe ... a whole bunch of others!). While endorsing the CTM (unsurprisingly) Fodor offers a convincing (IMHO) account of holistic factors ("abduction") in ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 17 18:53:57 PST 2006

22 [lbo-talk] Corey Robin's Reactionary Mind argument in miniature -- rank: 387

On Mar 9, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The problems begin with the title: "The x Mind." Whatever you replace x with > the proposition is still a black hole. No "mind" stands still long enough to > be labeled THE anything. It might work if the title were "Reactionary ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 9 08:17:21 PST 2012

23 [lbo-talk] vaca reading -- rank: 387

... best ever criticism of EP) * What Darwin Got Wrong - Jerry Fodor (always worth reading, even when wrong) * Logicomix - Doxiadis/Papadimitriou (lots ... Pilgrim s elegantly designed Dive Into HTML5 : http://diveintohtml5.org/ :-) ravi

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Date:	Thu May 5 15:31:18 PDT 2011

24 [lbo-talk] $39,000 handbag -- rank: 387

On Aug 29, 2011, at 9:42 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > On Aug 29, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: >> I'm lost. Who's glorifying anything? I'm talking about things that suck. > > There's also a certain pleasure - almost a competitive pressure - in identifying with the sufferings ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 29 08:46:47 PDT 2011

25 [lbo-talk] munchers -- rank: 387

On Jun 9, 2009, at 12:57 PM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > > BTW Chomsky has specifically endorsed Gould & Lewontin > on this point, except that he had been arguing > for decades that the evolution of human linguistic > capacity cannot be understood in terms of natural > selection. > > BTW this one major difference ...

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26 [lbo-talk] More on Kenneally -- rank: 387

... given that one of the main dudes behind the idea (Fodor) is also a strong critic of pomo! --ravi

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Date:	Sun Jul 12 19:23:04 PDT 2009

27 [lbo-talk] Computing R&D: science or engineering? -- rank: 387

... mind, and cognitivism. This is a theory proposed by Jerry Fodor and others (not only are mental operations akin to computations ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 8 08:47:28 PDT 2007

28 [lbo-talk] Is Sex Fun for Girls? --> Sociobiology, Sex, and History -- rank: 387

At around 23/1/07 1:41 pm, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > Since the theory is true, the _presumption_ is that > any given trait had an explanation saying that it > originated because it was adaptive in some > environment. The hypothesis that a trait is a > spandrel is fallback of desperation, when no ...

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29 Biology and Society (Re: [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill responds to U. of Colorado investigation] -- rank: 387

At around 28/5/06 4:08 am, Angelus Novus wrote: > > All good points that you make here. The contemporary > leftist aversion to evolutionary and biological > explanations for human behavior, is, as Steven Pinker > points out in his useful _The Blank Slate_, a result > of the fact that many leftists are ...

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Date:	Mon May 29 19:13:56 PDT 2006

30 It's Greek To Me (Was Re: [lbo-talk] slavery and technology) -- rank: 387

... the > others, Dennett's the worst, he's just unreadable. > Fodor has gotten worse over the years. He's at Rutgers ... though I am not sure I agree with him (FWIW). --ravi

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