This is an animated but polite discussion between Jerry Fodor and Elliott Sober -- very interesting, and I think I understand Fodor a little better now (i.e., motivates what I believe to be his error --- other than the fact that he's worried about problematic teleological notions like function being necessary to natural selection as a theory). And I do believe I've come up with Continue Reading …
Fodor, Darwin, and the Philosophy of Science
I had been looking forward to Jerry Fodor's What Darwin Got Wrong (co-authored with Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini), not because I have anything against Darwin but because Fodor is a superb writer, the well-respected cognitive scientist who "laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and language of thought hypotheses," and a worthy opponent of the idiocy of evolutionary Continue Reading …