Re: [FRIAM] Twitter: worth the effort!

2015-01-16 Thread Arlo Barnes
Why, because it offers you twice-indirected stories? I think that is less an argument why it is 'worth the effort', and more an argument for why it allows you not to put in the effort. You could just as easily browse Reddit and have seen the screencapped comment

[FRIAM] Twitter: worth the effort!

2015-01-16 Thread Owen Densmore
Bill Budge retweeted *Justine Tunney* ‏@JustineTunney Jan 14 This is what it means to be English. [image: Embedded image permalink]

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: academic fields whose practitioners believe ...

2015-01-16 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Marcus or to Steve, Damn Good Call. If you would not have uttered such a comment I would not now have such a headache. The threads have become confusing with everyone cutting and pasting chunks with unclear attributions. ( could we get coloured highlights ?) You have the advantage of seeing each

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: academic fields whose practitioners believe ...

2015-01-16 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
> I know... I only occasionally recognize that fact... I think Nick was > the first to notice a while back and suggested that it was a conspiracy > against him alone... which I also feel sometimes... It is a wonderful outcome if two (hypothetical) agents with diametrically opposed viewpoints ca

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: academic fields whose practitioners believe ...

2015-01-16 Thread Steve Smith
On 1/16/15 12:59 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: It was wonderful the range of personal experience we were able to bring to bear on this subject and the lack of guardedness with which we were able to explore it given our diverse history. Another benefit of in-person meetings is that this list fail

Re: [FRIAM] academic fields whose practitioners believe ...

2015-01-16 Thread Steve Smith
Nick - Not to pick nits or split hairs but can you be more precise (including an example) of what you mean by psychological concepts?  I'm a big fan of Lakoff and his theories of Embedded Cognition, and following his lead would be more tempted to use the

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: academic fields whose practitioners believe ...

2015-01-16 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
> It was wonderful the range of personal experience we were able to > bring to bear on this subject and the lack of guardedness with which > we were able to explore it given our diverse history. Another benefit of in-person meetings is that this list fails to actually deliver all mails! Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] academic fields whose practitioners believe ...

2015-01-16 Thread Nick Thompson
Steve, I was, actually. It was a great conversation. It began with one of my favorite things which is taking seriously the fact that when physicists talk about particle behavior they often have recourse to psychological concepts. My position is that, far from being a facon de parler pour com

Re: [FRIAM] academic fields whose practitioners believe ...

2015-01-16 Thread Steve Smith
On 1/16/15 8:46 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: Wow, Roger!   So, Philosophy is a field is one about which people believe that that “raw talent’  is necessary as opposed, say, to careful

Re: [FRIAM] academic fields whose practitioners believe ...

2015-01-16 Thread Nick Thompson
Wow, Roger! So, Philosophy is a field is one about which people believe that that “raw talent’ is necessary as opposed, say, to careful technique and diligent hard work. I have been a philosophy camp follower for years and I NEVER would have said that. Much as I love philosophy and