Talk:How the Mind Works

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What is this Article About?[edit]

Just curious, is this article about the book "How the Mind Works", or is it about actually how the mind works? Ikh 05:35, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The book by Steven Pinker. Otherwise the title would be in normal sentence casing (Wikipedia style is that titles only capitalize the first letter in the title). Also, "How the mind works" isn't a very encyclopedic title anyway. -- Schaefer 06:10, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks! Ikh 02:11, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fodor?[edit]

The bottom of the article mentions a critical review by Jerry Fodor, but in fact Fodor was so critical he wrote a book titled "The Mind Doesn't Work That Way", which probably ought to be mentioned if anyone ever expands this article. 68.195.124.77 03:14, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

blank slate[edit]

i'll leave it in for now as an example of his view, but it's pretty foolish for the only quote in an article on "how the mind works" to be from "the blank slate". perhaps someone who read the actual book could spiff this article up? --dan (talk) 13:46, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian or American?[edit]

In the current article it claims that Pinker is an American cognitive scientist. Although he teaches in the U.S. today, he was born and raised in Montreal, and earned several degrees from McGill University. Wouldn't that make him a Canadian cognitive scientist? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peepstein (talk • contribs) 23:39, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mathematically provable truth[edit]

East Pole's Steven Pinker may better note that the flamingo is stiffly pinker than the bruin or the brown bear of etymological tautology, which in turn is stiffly pinker than the grizzly and any other species. This mathematically provable notion has been well known since West Pole's Eleanor Rosch's prototype theory refined around semantic categories in 1975 in accordance with Paul Grice's (1975) famous implicature or the implicit nature of meaning in mind, that is, embodied a posteriori, acquired or learned, rather than embedded a priori, innate or inborn. Innatism may be not simply false but morally fraudulent. -- KYPark (talk) 11:10, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: Etymologically, the flamingo stems from flame, while Korean bulgom ("bruin, brown bear") stems from bul ("fire") and gom ("bear"). Yet, we hesitate to answer which is stiffly fierier, the flamingo or the bruin, as we are not born a mathematical and mechanical sensor. -- KYPark (talk) 12:11, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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