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16 [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

17 [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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Date:	Tue Jan 23 12:22:45 PST 2007

18 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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19 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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Date:	Wed Dec 20 02:06:11 PST 2006

20 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

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

22 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

23 [lbo-talk] slavery and technology -- rank: 387

... available. I am struggling through a small book by Jerry Fodor right now and have to keep Googling for Latin phrases ... opposing labels such as "obscurantist" which only begs the question). --ravi

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Date:	Sat Dec 16 18:59:25 PST 2006

24 [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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Author:	Jerry Monaco
Date:	Thu Jun 8 10:12:02 PDT 2006

25 [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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Date:	Thu Jun 8 09:50:42 PDT 2006

26 [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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Date:	Thu Jun 8 08:41:55 PDT 2006

27 [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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Date:	Wed May 31 07:14:14 PDT 2006

28 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

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 [lbo-talk] the 50-word story -- rank: 387

... a Triumph or Aprilia, Gary!) and try to study under Fodor at RUCCS. He has encouraged me to sit through his ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 22 10:32:04 PDT 2005