Ah, that got your interest. :-) "Consider for instance the academic fondness for the idea that madness is 'defined by culture'... The notion that there is nothing to madness, except what 'culture' decrees, is counter-intuitive to most people in most societies in the world - except to Western academics. Most people in most places who had any contact with insanity inferred that something was really non-standard in some other people’s mental functioning. Hence, probably, the frisson of the notion that it is all arbitrary and changing."
http://www.cognitionandculture.net/Pascal-s-blog/no-such-thing-as-sexual-intercourse-the-key-to-academic-success.html Related journal article: Pascal Boyer: "Intuitive expectations and the detection of mental disorder: A cognitive background to folk-psychiatries" http://artsci.wustl.edu/~pboyer/PBoyerHomeSite/articles/2010BoyerDetectionMadnessPhilPsych.pdf Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=5820 or send a blank email to leave-5820-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
