Re: Culture and Devel/123 lines
Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Tue, 19 Aug 1997 20:00:43 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Vera-- I am clearly on the placticity side and feel that a tremendous
shortcoming of all remedial work is its limited ability to change and
sustain changed enviromental circumstances so that the range of reaction
is never really tested. There is some material on this in cole and cole
in the chapter on the "primacy of infancy." But there ARE phylogenetic
constraints and what is fascinating is to me is the way that Fodor started
pushing phylogenetic domain specificity at virtually the same time that
we starte pushing environmental/cultural/context specificity.
In NYC on Sept 26th there will be a special session of the Moscow Luria
conference in Moscow by TV live with NYC that will include Oliver Sachs,
Jerome Bruner, and others. I'll try to be sure that it is videotaped
so that others can see what those luminaries have to say about ARL.
I'll be kibbitzing from Moscow.
mike