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Bob O'H Posts: 2564 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Feb. 09 2010,09:49    I guess there will be a bit of discussion about Fodor & Piattelli-Palmarini's new book - What Darwin Got Wrong (available from all good Amazons, if it's not published by McMillan).   He wrote an infamous piece a couple of years ago in the London Review of Books, which was pilloried at the time.  But I can't find a thread about the fun then.  So here we are, just in case. -------------- It is fun to dip into the various threads to watch cluelessness at work in the hands of the confident exponent. - Soapy Sam (so say we all)

Bob O'H Posts: 2564 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Feb. 09 2010,09:51    And just to show that this isn't pure altruism, here's my take on the accompanying New Scientist article.  Fodor & PP seem to be ignorant - I don't think they even know what a spandrel is. -------------- It is fun to dip into the various threads to watch cluelessness at work in the hands of the confident exponent. - Soapy Sam (so say we all)

carlsonjok Posts: 3326 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Feb. 09 2010,09:56    Quote (Bob O'H @ Feb. 09 2010,09:49) I guess there will be a bit of discussion about Fodor & Piattelli-Palmarini's new book - What Darwin Got Wrong (available from all good Amazons, if it's not published by McMillan).   Well sure you want to tear that book apart, since you failed at Expelling them. -------------- It's natural to be curious about our world, but the scientific method is just one theory about how to best understand it.  We live in a democracy, which means we should treat every theory equally. - Steven Colbert, I Am America (and So Can You!)

Quack Posts: 1961 Joined: May 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Feb. 09 2010,10:29    Quote (Bob O'H @ Feb. 09 2010,09:49) I guess there will be a bit of discussion about Fodor & Piattelli-Palmarini's new book - What Darwin Got Wrong (available from all good Amazons, if it's not published by McMillan).   He wrote an infamous piece a couple of years ago in the London Review of Books, which was pilloried at the time.  But I can't find a thread about the fun then.  So here we are, just in case. Could this be the thread you were looking for? ... ETA Now I know what a spandrel is. -------------- Rocks have no biology.               Robert Byers.

Doc Bill Posts: 1039 Joined: April 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Feb. 09 2010,18:10    Quote ETA Now I know what a spandrel is. Come now!  Joe Cocker sung about them!

Timothy McDougald Posts: 1036 Joined: Dec. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Feb. 09 2010,22:23    Quote (Doc Bill @ Feb. 09 2010,18:10) Quote ETA Now I know what a spandrel is. Come now!  Joe Cocker sung about them! But only because his baby wrote him a letter -------------- Church burning ebola boy FTK: I Didn't answer your questions because it beats the hell out of me. PaV: I suppose for me to be pried away from what I do to focus long and hard on that particular problem would take, quite honestly, hundreds of thousands of dollars to begin to pique my interest.

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