I can't bear that cockiness and cuteness and coyness. Quine sort of started it, but he wasn't as bad as 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 9:06 am, andie nachgeborenen
> wrote:
> > ... told them that the law is loaded with that
> sort of
> > stuff ... but mainly because it makes lawyers seem
> like
> > they are really smart to use expressions in
> languages
> > they don't understand.
> >
>
> Yes, I noticed the tendency in law.
>
>
> > Fodor's a
> > total fraud about this, I don't believe he knows
> Latin
> > at all.
>
>
> Perhaps he wants to come across as erudite and witty
> as Quine (is
> supposed to be). ;-) It is a decent book though (The
> Mind Doesn't Work
> That Way) -- a response to Pinker's [over]confident
> 1000(*) page tome on
> the workings of the mind (what is it in the waters
> of the Charles that
> produces the cockiness of Dennett, Pinker and a
> whole bunch of others!).
> While endorsing the CTM (unsurprisingly) Fodor
> offers a convincing
> (IMHO) account of holistic factors ("abduction") in
> belief causation
> that questions the explanatory power of the theories
> offered by what he
> (and others?) term The New Synthesis crowd (CTM +
> massive modularity +
> adaptationism/EP).
>
> --ravi
>
>
> (*) perhaps a bit less than 1000.
>
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