I've finally gotten time to review the Bérubé post and attachment, and it reminds me of a plaint I have harbored for some time. Someone in the lit dar fold...
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Dec 12, 2009 1:16 pm
Bérubé on Boyd's Origin of Stories Michael Bérubé has now reviewed Brian Boyd's On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction. His review is...
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Carroll, Joseph C.
clelburn1949
Dec 8, 2009 6:25 pm
I said "Geoffrey Dunham and Gary Comstock." Meant "Geoffrey Harpham and Gary Comstock." ________________________________ From: Carroll, Joseph C. Sent:...
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Carroll, Joseph C.
clelburn1949
Dec 8, 2009 6:17 pm
Hi Folks, Geoffrey Dunham and Gary Comstock at the National Humanities Center have sent out a notice about an upcoming forum on cultural evolution. This...
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Nov 29, 2009 2:34 pm
Anyone know of criticism linking Wuthering Heights to stories of wolf-children? For more info, see this blog entry: ...
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Nov 27, 2009 3:03 pm
The Music Instinct The Evolutionary Basis of Musicality Steven Mithen, University of Reading, Faculty of Science, Whiteknights, Reading, United Kingdom Address...
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Nov 18, 2009 12:02 pm
David Sloan Wilson's now got a blog on which he's been discussing evolution. Mostly he's been discussion four decades of disputation over group selection....
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Carroll, Joseph C.
clelburn1949
Nov 15, 2009 5:23 pm
Hello again, After sending out the updated list of books relevant to people with evolutionary interests, I collected a few more. I've added them to my own...
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Carroll, Joseph C.
clelburn1949
Nov 14, 2009 10:21 pm
Dear Potential Contributors to the special evolutionary issue of Politics and Culture: Many thanks to all of you who sent in notes about other books worthy of...
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Nov 14, 2009 8:50 pm
I've just posted a longish blog entry in which I indicate what I learned from Claude Levi-Strauss about how stories work. Best, Bill Benzon ...
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Carroll, Joseph C.
clelburn1949
Nov 14, 2009 2:08 am
Hello, Judith Saunders gave me a good suggestion for the special evolutionary issue of Politics and Culture. She suggested that I list some recent and...
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Carroll, Joseph C.
clelburn1949
Nov 11, 2009 8:26 pm
Hello again, I've agreed to be guest editor for a special issue of the online journal Politics and Culture devoted to the topic: "Bioculture: Evolutionary ...
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Nov 5, 2009 8:22 pm
Irving Massey has just published a book that looks most interesting. You can find the TOC, preface, and first chapter here: ...
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Carroll, Joseph C.
clelburn1949
Oct 30, 2009 3:09 pm
Hi Everybody, Michael Ryan and Amitava Kumar co-edit an online journal, Politics and Culture: http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/index2.cfm. They...
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Oct 6, 2009 11:05 pm
Keith -- FYI -- BB http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/06mind.html?hpw...
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Carroll, Joseph C.
clelburn1949
Sep 19, 2009 8:51 pm
Thanks, Maya. Yes, I mean "regulate"; in just the way you do: "mitigate, stimulate, control, augment and synthesize the body's more immediate thoughts and...
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maya lessov
mayalessov
Sep 19, 2009 8:07 pm
Joe, I really like the first two paragraphs below. The first two long paragraphs. I didn't quite think of the imaginative functions as there to regulate...
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Jeff P. Turpin
jpturpin1
Sep 16, 2009 6:36 pm
Tim--The longer I view Joe's "adaptive functions" claim, the more seductive it becomes, if you include what, how, and why in that claim. But I think your two...
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Tim Horvath
horvathon
Sep 16, 2009 4:40 pm
Joe and others, Perhaps I spoke sloppily, as that's precisely the sort of panning out I was referring to, where an author adduces various explanations and...
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Carroll, Joseph C.
clelburn1949
Sep 16, 2009 4:25 pm
Is the Wilson/Carroll argument that humans no longer have instincts, or that we no longer rely on them at all, or that we no longer rely on them exclusively? ...
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Carroll, Joseph C.
clelburn1949
Sep 16, 2009 4:08 pm
I'll copy below the paragraphs that follow the quick summary of the various adaptive functions people have suggested. This is from an article on "agonistic...
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Jeff P. Turpin
jpturpin1
Sep 16, 2009 4:04 pm
Good. A provocative spin. But is the Wilson/Carroll argument that humans no longer have instincts, or that we no longer rely on them at all, or that we no...
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Jeff P. Turpin
jpturpin1
Sep 16, 2009 3:58 pm
Well put. Simply substituting the phrase "one function" for "the function" makes the point. Lots of tools in the kit. jt Jeff P. Turpin, President Turpin and...
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Jeff P. Turpin
jpturpin1
Sep 16, 2009 3:53 pm
Hi Tim. I don't want to call out any specific authors or approaches on a listserv, (especially when I may be on the job market soon!), but as I am finishing...
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Carroll, Joseph C.
clelburn1949
Sep 16, 2009 3:43 pm
Here's a paragraph from an article in press, on multiple adaptive functions. A lot of people identify various functions. Boyd usually gets in four or five,...
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Sep 16, 2009 3:41 pm
I¹ve not read it but I¹ve read early drafts of most of the chapters. Yes, it¹s full of ideas. As for the adaptive function of literature, I doubt that...
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Tim Horvath
horvathon
Sep 16, 2009 3:20 pm
That should've read, Perhaps we are predisposed to come up with unitary explanations as individuals, but as readers, when we pan back and take a look at the...
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Tim Horvath
horvathon
Sep 16, 2009 3:18 pm
Holland's book looks like a trove of good ideas. I can't wait to get my hands on it, frankly, based on the table of contents. Has anyone read it? Jeff--Can you...
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Jeff P. Turpin
jpturpin1
Sep 16, 2009 2:52 pm
Good deal. I hope it is less monolithic than some of the recent "This is THE adaptive function of literature" texts that have popped out recently. Stories...
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Sep 15, 2009 10:50 pm
Norm Holland has published a book on Literature and the Brain. It's based on a graduate seminar he taught over several years at U of Florida. Bill B ...
