[lbo-talk] Chomsky on sociobiology

[ravi]

At around 6/6/06 8:47 am, Michael J. Smith wrote:
> 
> (I don't want to be too contentious in my first 48 hours on the
> list, so somebody tell me offline if I'm being a pain-in-the-ass
> presumptuous newbie.)       
> 

Don't give it a thought! I have been that (PITA presumptuous newbie) for
about 5 years at least now, on LBO... why let the old-timers monopolize
such behaviour? ;-)

I think your post is quite on target. Of course Chomsky is not an
impartial participant, having committed himself to "language instinct"s
and such in his theories. It is not by chance that Pinker, who
caricatures and attacks behavioural psychologists (as I had pointed out
earlier in this thread) borrows heavily from Chomskyian theory.

	--ravi

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