Re: New Gould Collection Coming Out

On Tue, 30 May 2006 09:53:10 +1200, "observa" <observa_spamsux@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

[...]

Then maybe they should get on with it rather than spendiong time, as
Pinker
does, with fighting old battles.

I think you're focusing on Pinker too much. Other folks are getting on with
research. Pinker has simply put himself in the position of being the public
frontman.

Perhaps. Pinker's is the only book I've read recently on the subject and
_Blank Slate_ is as up-to-date as I am on it. And sociobiology /
evolutionary psychology and the reactions to them interest me less as
science than as examples of how science really works.

But I'll probably try to get back to Segerstrale's book and then to
Wilson's . . . once I finish Doris Kearns Goodwin's book on Lincoln. Oh,
and maybe Rawls' _Theory of Justice_ . . . and . . .

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J. Pieret
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Scientists rarely refute their own pet hypotheses
.. . . but that's all right. Their fellow scientists
will be happy to . . .

- David L. Hull -

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