Thursday, March 18, 2010

Fodor and Kitcher

The Boston Review of Books pretty much highlights how I see the debate between Fodor and Kitcher.
Fodor:
Darwin needs an account of selection-for that distinguishes phenotypic traits that cause fitness from traits that are merely correlated with traits that cause fitness.

Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini are imposing a requirement on natural selection that no biologist or philosopher whom we know of has ever suggested.