A Causally Ambiguous Research Stream

Posted: May 17, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: cognition, conferences, economics, evolutionary theory, research | 3 Comments

I’m reporting from another great ACAC conference. This conference featured retrospectives marking the 30 year anniversaries for Nelson and Winter’s book and Lippman and Rumelt’s article. Kudos to Bill and the organizing committee for putting it together.

A starting similarity in the two is that they were both directly intended to influence conversations in economics and both missed their marks. For example, about 1% of the cites for Lippman and Rumelt were in top Econ journals – despite the fact that the article appeared in the Bell Journal of Economics. Lippman & Rumelt recorded a video specifically for the occasion Read the rest of this entry »

Jerry Fodor on the Darwin Wars

Posted: December 7, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: collective behavior, current events, evolutionary theory, philosophy | Leave a comment

And, here’s a response by Alexander Rosenberg, how Jerry Fodor slid down the slippery slope of anti-darwinism, and Paul Griffiths on how evolution selects truth, and Richard Boyd on evolutionary psychology.