A postscript to my comments on Frank Cioffi: I can't resist quoting a
characteristic comment he made in a caustic review in the philosophy
journal *Inquiry* of Richard Wollheim's *Freud* in the Fontana "Modern
Masters" series (still in print). This was published in 1972 at a time
when it was re
A follow-up to Miguel's citing of the obituary for Robert Ader: The
Wittgenstein and Freud scholar Frank Cioffi died suddenly a few days
ago:
http://simplycharly.squarespace.com/blog/2012/1/2/philosopher-frank-cioffi-dead-at-83.html
Cioffi had an encyclopaedic knowledge of Freud's writings and
I haven't seen the latest PotA movie, but the story Michael relates has a
peculiar similarity to the story of Nim Chimpsky, whose true tale is recounted
in the recent documentary, "Project Nim." Nim was taken from his mother at two
weeks of age, raised in a house like a child for several months,
Is the apes movie fiction? Of course. Did the scriptwriters have any
psychological theory in mind when they wrote the script? Of course not. Might
they, nonetheless, have an intuitive understanding of what motivates people? I
would say yes. And in the end, could the fictional Caesar's moti
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:44:07 -080, Michael Britt wrote:
>The latest Planet of the Apes movie is pretty good in my
>opinion and I think there's an interesting tie-in with
>social psych.
>
>Our hero, Caesar, was raised with humans without ever having
>seen another ape. There's an interesting scene w
The latest Planet of the Apes movie is pretty good in my opinion and I think
there's an interesting tie-in with social psych.
Our hero, Caesar, was raised with humans without ever having seen another ape.
There's an interesting scene where his owners let take him outdoors for a run
and afterwa
I am usually a few days behind in my reading of the paper, but this morning I
noticed the obituary of psychologist Robert Ader in the NY Times,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/science/robert-ader-who-linked-stress-and-illness-dies-at-79.html
.
I have sometimes wondered whether Ader would
