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The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism (1998)
- magda_wang 9y agoFodor died recently and this is a good essay. I got the link from https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/jerry-fodors-enduring-critique-of-neo-darwinism https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/jerry-fodors-en....
- norikki 9y agoThanks for the new yorker link. It explains who could publish a serious article that makes no sense and is just a rambling collection of fallacious arguments in favor of 'free will' and nay-saying cognative evolutionary biology without citing any evidence or presenting its own.
- quantumofmalice 9y ago> So, what matters with regard to the question whether the mind is an adaptation is not how complex our behaviour is, but how much change you would have to make in an ape’s brain to produce the cognitive structure of a human mind. And about this, exactly nothing is known Seems like begging the question to me, fam. > you could get some by a miracle. Well, at least that would be intellectually honest.