available also on the channel of you tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcKuSs57nwY
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:12 AM, Redacted sender jlsperanza for DMARC <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It’s not every day that a Griceian philosopher is mentioned in the pages
of The New York Times – but now he has!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/obituaries/jerry-a-
fodor-dead-philosopher-of-the-mind.html
The final paragraphs of the document linked above may ring (or jingle) a
bell or two with Popperians. For Fodor (who is more of a Griceian
philosopher when collaborating with Katz, admittedly) wants to ‘bury,’ if
that’s the word, both Darwin and Skinner!
From the link above:
“[Fodor] and Chomsky had a modus operandi which was ‘Bury your opponents
as early as possible,’ ” Lepore says, speaking of Fodor. “And when he went
up against the scientific community, I do not think Fodor was ready for
that. He basically told these guys that natural selection was bogus. The
arguments are interesting, but he did not [precisely] win a lot of
converts.”
O. T. O. H., it would have been anathema for Grunebaum – a very Oxonian
type – to be TOO MUCH against, say, Locke’s empiricism! (Popper, O. T. O.
H., having, figuratively, one foot on the ‘continental’ tradition, seems to
favour, very easily, Kant – about whom it may do to revise what Fodor
says).
Cheers,
Speranza
