[lbo-talk] posh as fuck

[// ravi]

On Dec 8, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 21:12:21 -0500
> // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
> 
>> Your post reminds me of Philip Kitcher’s intro to 
>> his book Vaulting Ambition.
> 
> Funny you should mention. I just picked up this 
> book from the recycled-books table in my building, 
> and have been reading it with great pleasure. My 
> only regret is that it's not recent enough to contain
> a few whacks at that unspeakable creep Stephen Pinker. 
> 

Vaulting Ambition is unfortunately out of print and does predate Pinker. For a good treatment of EP in general (and in the vein of VA) I highly recommend Adapting Minds. For a short and robust take down of Pinker's adaptationism when it comes to cognition/psychology, there is Fodor's The Mind Doesn't Work That Way (even the NYRB essay that led to the book suffices to demonstrate Pinker's overreaches).

    -- ravi


> (Pinker gets his 'umble toiler's paycheck from Harvard, 
> that New Jerusalem of the Credentialling Sector, 
> bee-tee-dubs.) 
> 
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