Fodor on Pinker (fwd)

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:54:01 +0000 From: Stephen Clark &lt;srlclark(a)LIVERPOOL.AC.UK&gt; To: PHILOS-L(a)LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK Subject: Fodor on Pinker (fwd) From: Humanist Discussion Group &lt;humanist(a)kcl.ac.uk&gt; From: Willard McCarty &lt;Willard.McCarty(a)kcl.ac.uk&gt; Subject: Fodor on Pinker John Lavagnino has kindly pointed me to Jerry Fodor's very fine, lucid and typically funny, review of Steven Pinker, How the mind works, and Henry Plotkin, Evolution in mind, "The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism", London Review of Books, <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20n02/fodo2002.html>, or by clicking via <http://www.lrb.co.uk/> in the frames version. This is worth reading for several reasons, among them to see the value of stating clearly what we don't know -- in fact the value of stating clearly. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty(a)kcl.ac.uk <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =========================================================================