Harmon R Holcomb
Biographic Data
| ID | 312201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harmon R Holcomb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harmon R |
| FAMILY NAME | Holcomb |
| SIGNATURE | HOLCOMB H R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Evolved Psychological Mechanisms and Content-Specificity
In The Adapted Mind (1992), Cosmides and Tooby argue for the thesis that biological evolution endowed the human mind with a system of content-specific computational mechanisms designed to solve long-standing adaptive problems humans encountered as hunter-gatherers, and not just a generalized "capacity for culture" or all-purpose "learning capacity". I analyze three types of arguments they offer: historical arguments for the rise of content-Specif…
Latency versus Complementarity
Desupernaturalization
BENEATH all the preaching and exhorting, and almost lost in all the pose striking, a theme offered by Mr. Xenakis begs for serious attention: it is impossible to be a theist, and there are no believers. Once we see this, with the help of philosophical therapy, we shall be saved from the pernicious effects of upon the social fabric. In the comments which follow, no attempt is made to defend supernaturalism either in the form of the grab-bag of odd…
Scientific Language and the Language of Religion
precise, and have truth as a property of sentences themselves. Easily taught, and easily grasped secondhand, this knowledge is neutral with respect to way in which (or how) it is held. It has no necessary implications for visions and faiths by which a man lives and discovers himself as a man. 2. General thesis concerning meaning and plurality of languages. There are many human needs in addition to cognitive, and there are many kinds of languages …
Scientific Language and the Language of Religion
precise, and have truth as a property of sentences themselves. Easily taught, and easily grasped secondhand, this knowledge is neutral with respect to way in which (or how) it is held. It has no necessary implications for visions and faiths by which a man lives and discovers himself as a man. 2. General thesis concerning meaning and plurality of languages. There are many human needs in addition to cognitive, and there are many kinds of languages …
Scientific Language and the Language of Religion
precise, and have truth as a property of sentences themselves. Easily taught, and easily grasped secondhand, this knowledge is neutral with respect to way in which (or how) it is held. It has no necessary implications for visions and faiths by which a man lives and discovers himself as a man. 2. General thesis concerning meaning and plurality of languages. There are many human needs in addition to cognitive, and there are many kinds of languages …
Desupernaturalization
BENEATH all the preaching and exhorting, and almost lost in all the pose striking, a theme offered by Mr. Xenakis begs for serious attention: it is impossible to be a theist, and there are no believers. Once we see this, with the help of philosophical therapy, we shall be saved from the pernicious effects of upon the social fabric. In the comments which follow, no attempt is made to defend supernaturalism either in the form of the grab-bag of odd…
Latency versus Complementarity
Evolved Psychological Mechanisms and Content-Specificity
In The Adapted Mind (1992), Cosmides and Tooby argue for the thesis that biological evolution endowed the human mind with a system of content-specific computational mechanisms designed to solve long-standing adaptive problems humans encountered as hunter-gatherers, and not just a generalized "capacity for culture" or all-purpose "learning capacity". I analyze three types of arguments they offer: historical arguments for the rise of content-Specif…
Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (1 work) · Bohr model (1 work) · Child and Animal Learning Development (1 work) · Cognitive psychology (1 work) · Cognitive science (1 work) · Complementarity (molecular biology) (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Content (measure theory (1 work)