We’ve got a couple posts in the hopper – a Peirce vs. Deleuze post (of all things) and a post about how scientific triumphalism empowering anti-science right and the left – but little time to clean them up right now. Plus we’re still working our way through posts going back to May – quals was not kind to our blogging – so there’s no way we can do a separate post on everything that’s mildly interesting. Ergo, link dump:
* We love it when social scientists take pop psychology for rigorous psychoanalytic theory, debunk it, and then declare that psychoanalytic theory has been definitively disproven – even when other scientific studies go the other way. The only thing we like better is when cultural studies people do the same thing (“… but Lacan says women don’t exist!”). Naturally, psychoanalytic theory gets no credit for insisting that the infant is fundamentally narcissistic – something psychology is only now beginning to appreciate.
* This will make you feel happy and smug. Promise.
* Stoners everywhere just felt a little rush of pride
* It appears that the social scientific ecosystem – particularly the parts concerned with meta-analysis – might have some methodological shortcomings.. Not like nit-picky, smug bad humanities anti-science “well, what about this other variable that you haven’t accounted for [except for all of the tests for robustness that you did, which actually do account for it].” Like real problems.
* Children with autism are immune to contagious yawning – Weird
* Does an artificial intelligence require a body? – Maybe
* Hardwired biological differences between men and women here and here and here. Bummer.
* This would be most embarrassing.
* When the most successful academic blog on the web publishes a post called Types Of Truth, we link to it. And now you understand why most of our blogging could be replaced by a very small, very efficient shell script.
* Spare the rod, spoil the child.
Previously:
* The Psychoanalytic Pushback Against Philosophy Of Consciousness
* Job Call Roundup – Who Got Their Calls Into Spectra On Time? Edition
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