(I hope everyone notices that I got his name right for once).
I just received a private note from a TIPSter saying that she received
my post on Dennett as an attachment and, what with Happy (and we're
not talking dwarfs, here) and Melissa on the loose, she sure as heck
wasn't going to click on it. Well, she was more polite about it, but
that was the gist.
So I want to declare that I never sent it as an attachment, I believe
my mailer is incapable of sending it as an attachment and (note added
as proof), the copy I received of my own message did not arrive with
an attachment. So this means that some people's providers are
converting perfectly ordinary e-mail messages into attachments. I
don't think I'll be giving away the TIPSter's identity when I say that
she had an AOL address. So don't blame me, blame AOL. Given that
messages from me originate from a UNIX (Linux, actually) source, I
believe that my messages will always be safe, even if converted by AOL
into an attachment (Marc, is that right?).
But I was asked to provide a summary of my message. No need, really.
You can get the original essay at:
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/postmod.tru.htm
where it's probably presented in a better format anyway.
But as a quick overview (and other TIPSters can provide a more
informative or accurate summary if they like), Dennett's essay is
about the misguided and dangerous nature of the postmodern and
multiculturalist view that there is no such thing as truth--it all
depends.
Although I didn't say so in my original post, the essay is in fact
relevant to recent comments on this list regarding supposed
differences between "Eurocentric" and "Afrocentric" views of
psychology and science.
-Stephen
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Stephen Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470
Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661
Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lennoxville, QC
J1M 1Z7
Canada Department web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy
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