{"id":145,"date":"2010-02-25T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?p=145"},"modified":"2023-07-24T16:09:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T14:09:41","slug":"block-and-kitcher-review-what-darwin-got-wrong-by-fodor-and-piatelli-palmarini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/blogs\/dan-sperber\/block-and-kitcher-review-what-darwin-got-wrong-by-fodor-and-piatelli-palmarini\/","title":{"rendered":"Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the strong reservations that most social scientists have towards evolutionary biology, they might welcome Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini&#8217;s new book, <em>What Darwin Got Wrong<\/em> (2010), as they once did Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin famous article, &#8220;The Spandrels of San Marco&#8221; [1] that criticized the so-called &#8220;adaptationist programme.&#8221; From the book&#8217;s blurb: &#8220;Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, a distinguished philosopher and a scientist working in tandem, reveal major flaws at the heart of Darwinian evolutionary theory. Combining the results of cutting-edge work in experimental biology with crystal-clear philosophical arguments, they mount a reasoned and convincing assault on the central tenets of Darwin&#8217;s account of the origin of species.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before getting carried away however, read Ned Block and Philip Kitcher&#8217;s review in the Boston Review [2]. In their conclusion, Block and Kitcher note: &#8220;Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini take the role of philosophy to consist in part in minding other people&#8217;s business. We agree with the spirit behind this self-conception. Philosophy can sometimes help other areas of inquiry. Yet those who wish to help their neighbors are well advised to spend a little time discovering just what it is that those neighbors do [&#8230;] What Darwin Got Wrong shows no detailed engagement with the practice of evolutionary biology&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n[1] Gould, S. J., &amp; Lewontin, R. C. (1979). The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme. <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences<\/i>,&nbsp;<i>205<\/i>(1161), 581-598.<\/p>\n[2] Block, N., &amp; Kitcher, P. (2010). Misunderstanding Darwin: Natural selection\u2019s secular critics get it wrong. <i>Boston Review<\/i>, (March-April), 29-32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the strong reservations that most social scientists have towards evolutionary biology, they might welcome Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini&#8217;s new book, What Darwin Got Wrong (2010), as they once did Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin famous article, &#8220;The Spandrels of San Marco&#8221; [1] that criticized the so-called &#8220;adaptationist programme.&#8221; From the book&#8217;s blurb: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini - International Cognition and Culture Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/blogs\/dan-sperber\/block-and-kitcher-review-what-darwin-got-wrong-by-fodor-and-piatelli-palmarini\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini - International Cognition and Culture Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Given the strong reservations that most social scientists have towards evolutionary biology, they might welcome Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini&#8217;s new book, What Darwin Got Wrong (2010), as they once did Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin famous article, &#8220;The Spandrels of San Marco&#8221; 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