Paley Redivivus


  • Title: Paley Redivivus
  • Author(s): J. E. R. Staddon
  • Date: 28 December 2007
  • Keyname: 2007-12-28-Staddon
  • Responds to: Why Pigs Don't Have Wings
  • Lead-in: Fodor once more presents us with a persuasive, entertaining – and profoundly wrong – view of a great man. Not B. F. Skinner this time, but a much grander figure, none other than Charles Darwin. Fodor's often misdirected attacks on an extinct behaviorism.

Responses

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A dialogue between Fodor and Staddon12 February 2008J. E. R. Staddon
Jerry Fodor
Jerry Fodor responded to John Staddon’s comment, and a dialogue ensued. The focal point seems to be whether natural selection should (Fodor), or potentially does (Staddon) provide a causal account of evolutionary adaptation.

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Fodor once more presents us with a persuasFodor once more presents us with a persuasive, entertaining – and profoundly wrong – view of a great man. Not B. F. Skinner this time, but a much grander figure, none other than Charles Darwin. Fodor's often misdirected attacks on an extinct behaviorism.irected attacks on an extinct behaviorism. +
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