evolution without adaptation

[larvatus]

The high tide of adaptationism floated a motley navy, but it may now be on the ebb. If it does turn out that natural selection isn’t what drives evolution, a lot of loose speculations will be stranded high, dry and looking a little foolish. Induction over the history of science suggests that the best theories we have today will prove more or less untrue at the latest by tomorrow afternoon. In science, as elsewhere, ‘hedge your bets’ is generally good advice.
— Jerry Fodor, Why Pigs Don’t Have Wings, LRB, Vol. 29 No. 20 dated 18 October 2007

Comments

[avrukinesku.livejournal.com]

Как раз размышлял (или думал, что размышлял) о "внутреннем молчании", и тут такая ссылка. Захотелось срочно приобрести ПСС Фодора. Не читали ли Вы его "Some reflections on L.S. Vygotsky's THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE"? Видимо, есть какие-то пересечения Ф. с "внутренней речью" последнего.

[avrukinesku.livejournal.com]

Хотя черт с ним, с другой стороны. Какая разница, как он отнесся к В-му. Спасибо за ссылку. Будем брать.

[larvatus.livejournal.com]

I never read Fodor on Vygotsky. In fact, I muchly prefer Fodor the polemicist to Fodor the philosopher. So it goes.