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It has been about one year since we had our discussion on the 'mind'. And I suspect that Dr Y... [MORE] |
Andrew McCarthy |
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This is where 'facts' are really nonsense in disguise. If one has a hypothesis that cannot be proved or disproved... [MORE] |
Andrew McCarthy |
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The confusion of any philosophical science that has no heart What I find so alarming is that our most learned, our... [MORE] |
Andrew McCarthy MD |
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Pinker's postulations still resonates with the 'soft innatism' and "cast of basic concepts" of a Longinian (Longinus) prefiguration of thought.... [MORE] |
obrian worrell |
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Latin is figurative speech, right? Well just look up any word of Latin or Greek origin and you will get... [MORE] |
Jean-Philippe De Lasalle |
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I think what has me so dismayed by rational science in regards to human beings, as we want to practice... [MORE] |
Andrew McCarthy MD |
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We have heard of Evolution as "survival of the fittest," but I understand that studies of chaos and emergence give... [MORE] |
John House |
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Pinker's verbal brilliance has been obscured by his inadequate theory and frequent misrepresentation of facts. I demonstrated this in an article... [MORE] |
Bruce I. Kodish |
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adding "ism's" to authors (darwinism's, dawkinism's, pinkerism's) is lazy, sloppy and silly, please refrain. these authors have stated empirically verifiable... [MORE] |
michael farr |
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I very much doubt that steven Pinker is the cognitive sicentist of our time. first and foremost he is a... [MORE] |
charles leighton |
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I once attended a public lecture by Steven Pinker at my university. The event was so popular that I had... [MORE] |
W. Dean |
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--- "But has any serious thinker actually held this form of innatism? No; it's at best a heuristic for actual... [MORE] |
p. bourges-waldegg |
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Pinker's "sensitivity to subtle semantic distinctions" echoes Anatole France's maxim that "truth lies in the nuances." Basically, this is the... [MORE] |
William Hoffman, Ph.D. |
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I haven't read the book, but from what examples are given here of the "cast of basic concepts," it seems... [MORE] |
Marc Andre Belanger |
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I apologize for saying cognitive psychology has no merit. I don't mean that. But it does have issues that those... [MORE] |
Andrew McCarthy MD |
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A very gracious apology Dr McCarthy as well as several valid points that clarify your position. I agree completely with... [MORE] |
Laurie |
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John Locke is an eighteenth-century philosopher by only a hair's breadth. Locke died in 1704; his most important works appeared... [MORE] |
R. Franklin Carter |
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Logrolling much? But yeah, Pinker is probably more or less on the same level as Roughgarden, though maybe a little... [MORE] |
Martin Browning |
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Pinker making diffenence between mind and brain, really speaking all our thinking ,feeling, sensation, language born from brain. We know... [MORE] |
Ramesh Raghuvanshi |
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It may sound impressive to detail a fundamental relationship with language and mind but first one must determine what is... [MORE] |
Andrew McCarthy MD |
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A bit difficult to make out what Dr. McCarthy is going on about...over 500 words to express what seems to... [MORE] |
Kyle |
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"Man is not measurable in words or in numbers and that is where the whole idea of cognitve psychology fails.... |
Laurie |
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Sorry, couldn't help it. First there's this comment, Dr. McCarthy:The problem is psychology is not a true science. It is not... [MORE] |
Psychologist Y, PhD |
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I went to a university where psychology was in the school of Arts and Letters. I majored in psychology as... [MORE] |
Andrew McCarthy MD |
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You are right in one aspect in that I did not clarify my thoughts in a more detailed way. Dr.... [MORE] |
Andrew McCarthy MD |
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First, don't take the McCarthyism thing too seriously - it was just a play on "Pinkerism" via a reference to... [MORE] |
Psychologist Y, PhD |
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Dear Dr Y, I think you agree with me at one level yet do not realize it. You believe that science... [MORE] |
Andrew McCarthy MD |
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Perhaps we're just talking about different things here. First, I am not a clinical psychologist. Like Pinker, I am an... [MORE] |
Psychologist Y, PhD |
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I understand that you are in experimental evolutionary psychology. And I understand that you believe that cognition, whatever on this... [MORE] |
Andrew McCarthy MD |
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This is why I say that what you will try to do 'scientifically' in regards to the self is never... [MORE] |
Andrew McCarthy MD |
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Well I've given the whole idea of the relation between the mind and reality some thought and this is part... [MORE] |
Jean-Philippe de Lasalle |
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Remember to keep categories/fields straight and don't forget fundamentals. Mathematics is much more than idea. It gives one a sense... [MORE] |
Andrew McCarthy MD |
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I know what I have said here is a bit upsetting to psychologists/ neurologists, to physicists, to mathematicians, to biologists,... [MORE] |
Andrew McCarthy MD |
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The reason Pinker is difficult to refute is because his ideas and evidence are those of a chameleon. He... [MORE] |
esya |
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Jerry Fodor is a philosopher.Yiddish is inherently funny.Etc. [MORE] |
Fitz |
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