Re: [xmca] Fodor against Darwin

From: Tony Whitson <twhitson@UDel.Edu>
Date: Mon Nov 09 2009 - 11:58:25 PST

To clarify the clarification: It is the issue linked from David's message,
although that issue is not the current (this) issue.

Fodor isn't taken vary seriously on this. He takes some shots at forms of
evolutionary psychology that are questionable, but then he tries to extend
his argument to an argument that Darwinism cannot work in principle in the
biological sphere. His training in philosophy does not equip him to
contend against the scientists and mathematicians in their domains of
expertise.

More relevant to some threads here might be, in the same issue
Meta-cognition in Animals: A Skeptical Look, by PETER CARRUTHERS

On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, David Preiss wrote:

> Ps. Actually is not "this" number, but a recent one.
> DP
>
> On Nov 9, 2009, at 4:27 PM, David Preiss wrote:
>
>> Colleagues,
>> Interesting debate in this number of Mind and Language. Check the link
>> below.
>> DP
>>
>>>
>>> Volume 23 Issue 1
>>> Mind & Language
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