I wouldn't go for a moral argument. Let's keep it scientific. I do believe that The Algebraic Mind is one of the must reads of anyone interested in Cognitive Neuroscience Theory, even if you are wrong. BTW, I skimmed though a paper by Willem Zuidema that claims you are wrong.
Anybody else see a problem with highly-paid researchers at leading institutions refusing to engage in reading outside their own discipline? (Aside: book in question-The Algebraic Mind-is not general audience; it's a technical book in MIT Press's prestigious Bradford series.)https://twitter.com/zergylord/status/1200694810904018945 …
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good for you for reading the reply, too!
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refusing to engage in reading your book being the specific case here; who knows what else they read?
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nice try but no: he articulated a general principle, not a specific issue with The Algebraic Mind. (he couldn't even identify the broad nature of the book, in fact, misidentifying it as a lay audience book; obviously false to anyone knowing that prestigious list).
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By outside my own discipline, do you mean cognitive psychology? Like the subject I got my PhD in? I'm well versed. And I've read your book. It's a useful review with some interesting new ideas, but isn't detailed or focused enough to be the subject of follow-up work.
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show me your system for handling - universally quantified one-to-one mappings - type-token distinction or - structured representations And I will think you have something substantive to say; otherwise you are just trying to blow off those ideas without anything substantive.
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It's a problem both for science in general and for each discipline. But it's not refusal, it's the easiest path to within-discipline success. Broader interests are probably more successful in the longer term, but the system disintentivizes it, so it takes quite a personality.
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