[lbo-talk] Noam does New York

[Jerry Monaco]

I also see that Elizabeth Spelke, will be speaking later this week.
She is very interesting and could be said to be working with a
hypothesis close to sociobiology if the word was not such a scare
term.  See especially her paper with Marc Hauser (a collaborator of
Chomsky's on his paper on the evolution of the language faculty.)
_Evolutionary and developmental foundations of human knowledge: A case
study of mathematics_
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~lds/pdfs/hauser2004b.pdf

She is speaking on a topic that she debated with Pinker, and smashed
him in my opinion.  She just knows so much more about this subject
than he does.

The debate between Pinker and Spelke can be found here
THE SCIENCE OF GENDER AND SCIENCE
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/debate05_index.html

The Controversy About Women in Science:  A Sober Look
February 9, 2007. Heyman Center Common Room, East Campus. 10am to 4:30pm

Elizabeth S. Spelke, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University and
Virginia Valian, Professor of Psychology, Hunter College

 Friday, 9 February

 the Heyman Center Common Room

 Session One: 10am to 12:30pm
Session Two:  2pm to 4:30pm

 Panelists:

 Trish Culligan

 Geraldine Downey

 Norma Graham

 David Helfand

 Julia Hirshberg

 William Mende

  No tickets or reservations

 Co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity Initiatives