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--On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 12:44:44 John Wilkins wrote: >Just checked Piaget's _Behavior and Evolution_. He got it from Waddington >and cites Goldschmidt as the originator. > > Maybe Piaget was making a retrospective acknowledgement of Baldwin in _Adaptation and Intelligence_ then. Since it's topical here's an online copy of Baldwin's "A New Factor in Evolution":
http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/publications/Bookinforev/baldwin.html
I assume this is true to the original. I'm hoping to delve deeper into Baldwin's corpus soon, but right now I'm stumbling through Popper's _Conjectures and Refutations_ and _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ (LSD) and I've picked up some more stuff by Piaget, so I'm pretty well booked up (nice pun) for a while. Are there any good comparisons/contrasts between genetic epistemology and evolutionary epistemology which won't go way over the head of a philosophically challenged dud such as myself? I have been planning on immersing myself into world 3 though one of these days. BTW, I've got this classic paper saved which appears on the web:
http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/classics/Breland/misbehavior.htm
It's not exactly topical, but at least Lorenz and Hebb are mentioned. Dawkins discusses Skinner in _Unweaving the Rainbow_ so maybe I can make a stretch here. I'm sure people will find it informative anyway.
Scott
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