Re: True Gems of Scientific Epistemology
From: cdj (a_cjones_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/21/04
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Date: 21 Jul 2004 10:46:57 -0700
JXStern <JXSternChangeX2R@gte.net> wrote in message news:<kearf058423skunf5ukha2987bhi223b5e@4ax.com>...
> Orthogonal to your choices, I always like to recommend Ruth Garrett
> Millikan's books on teleosemantics, "On Clear and Confused Ideas" is
> more accessible than "Language, Thought, and Other Biological
> Categories."
Millikan? bah.
> And in relation to your later message, don't toss off Darwin so
> quickly, evolution is an *extremely* subtle and tricky idea, enough so
> that Gould and Dawkins agree on just about no details at all. Along
> those lines, I'd recommend Ernst Mayr's "Toward a New Philosophy of
> Biology".
Good call on the evolution-tip. To hell with Gould n Dawkins tho - go
with Daniel Dennett, "Darwin's Dangerous Idea"!
:)
cdj
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