Happiness: Is it in your genes or in your head? - By Steven Pinker, Martin Seligman, and Robert Wright - Slate Magazine
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http://www.slate.com/id/2072079/entry/2072402
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Mixing Memory : Pinker v. Lakoff
Pinker is right on the science, and Lakoff is wrong. Furthermore, instead of presenting intellectual arguments to convince us that he's right, Lakoff just makes shit up.
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http://scienceblogs.com/mixingmemory/2006/10/pinker_v_lakoff.php
Pinker is right on the science, and Lakoff is wrong. Furthermore, instead of presenting intellectual arguments to convince us that he's right, Lakoff just makes shit up.
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http://scienceblogs.com/mixingmemory/2006/10/pinker_v_lakoff.php
Block That Metaphor!
Lakoff's book will be red meat for his foes on the right, who can hold up his distortions as proof of liberals' insularity and incomprehension.
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http://www.powells.com/review/2006_10_19
Lakoff's book will be red meat for his foes on the right, who can hold up his distortions as proof of liberals' insularity and incomprehension.
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http://www.powells.com/review/2006_10_19
Beyond Beauty and Wonder — Rockridge Institute
Formal logics are inherently meaningless symbolic systems that have to be understood to be used. In understanding them, we bring to them our frames, metaphors, prototypes, and so on.
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http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/lakoff/beyondbeautyandwonder
Formal logics are inherently meaningless symbolic systems that have to be understood to be used. In understanding them, we bring to them our frames, metaphors, prototypes, and so on.
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http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/lakoff/beyondbeautyandwonder
When Cognitive Science Enters Politics — Rockridge Institute
Unfortunately, what passes for a review of my book, Whose Freedom?, is actually a vituperative and underhanded attack. You might never guess from the review what the book is about.
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http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/lakoff/whencognitivescienceenterspolitics
Unfortunately, what passes for a review of my book, Whose Freedom?, is actually a vituperative and underhanded attack. You might never guess from the review what the book is about.
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http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/lakoff/whencognitivescienceenterspolitics
TheStar.com | sciencetech | Of thought and metaphor
We have to do two things with language. We've got to convey a message and we've got to negotiate what kind of social relationship we have with someone.
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http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/173200
We have to do two things with language. We've got to convey a message and we've got to negotiate what kind of social relationship we have with someone.
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http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/173200
The Moral Instinct - New York Times
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html
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