[lbo-talk] More on Kenneally

socialismorbarbarism socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 11:34:37 PDT 2009


mart: "i personally find pinker pretty appaling. but he fits well at MIT keeping the rock of solidarity of ideology with a smooth face"

Pinker is at Harvard now--where maintaining "solidarity of ideology with a smooth face" is much more of an institutional raison d'etre, so it is probably a happy fit for all concerned.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:36 AM, mart<media314159 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> i think i read the pinker and bloom article(s).  their main point seemed to be there were actually 2 language learning systems, which was a way to solve or get around the empiricist/innatist debate (like the selfish./altruistic debate).  it turned out, surprisingly, that both systems exist (just as it turned out people surprisingly are both selfish and altuistic ...



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