http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/ Biopoetics Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:22:16 GMT William Benzon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/579 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/579 Irving Massey has just published a book that looks most interesting. You can find the TOC, preface, and first chapter here: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:09:32 GMT Carroll, Joseph C. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/578 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/578 Hi Everybody, Michael Ryan and Amitava Kumar co-edit an online journal, Politics and Culture: http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/index2.cfm. They Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:05:53 GMT William Benzon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/577 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/577 Keith -- FYI -- BB http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/06mind.html?hpw Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:51:27 GMT Carroll, Joseph C. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/576 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/576 Thanks, Maya. Yes, I mean "regulate" in just the way you do: "mitigate, stimulate, control, augment and synthesize the body's more immediate thoughts and Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:07:10 GMT maya lessov http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/575 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/575 Joe, I really like the first two paragraphs below. The first two long paragraphs. I didn't quite think of the imaginative functions as there to regulate Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:36:00 GMT Jeff P. Turpin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/574 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/574 Tim--The longer I view Joe's "adaptive functions" claim, the more seductive it becomes, if you include what, how, and why in that claim. But I think your two Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:40:42 GMT Tim Horvath http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/573 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/573 Joe and others, Perhaps I spoke sloppily, as that's precisely the sort of panning out I was referring to, where an author adduces various explanations and Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:25:16 GMT Carroll, Joseph C. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/572 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/572 Is the Wilson/Carroll argument that humans no longer have instincts, or that we no longer rely on them at all, or that we no longer rely on them exclusively? Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:08:22 GMT Carroll, Joseph C. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/571 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/571 I'll copy below the paragraphs that follow the quick summary of the various adaptive functions people have suggested. This is from an article on "agonistic Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:04:44 GMT Jeff P. Turpin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/570 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/570 Good. A provocative spin. But is the Wilson/Carroll argument that humans no longer have instincts, or that we no longer rely on them at all, or that we no Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:58:17 GMT Jeff P. Turpin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/569 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/569 Well put. Simply substituting the phrase "one function" for "the function" makes the point. Lots of tools in the kit. jt Jeff P. Turpin, President Turpin and Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:53:29 GMT Jeff P. Turpin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/568 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/568 Hi Tim. I don't want to call out any specific authors or approaches on a listserv, (especially when I may be on the job market soon!), but as I am finishing Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:43:08 GMT Carroll, Joseph C. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/567 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/567 Here's a paragraph from an article in press, on multiple adaptive functions. A lot of people identify various functions. Boyd usually gets in four or five, Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:41:40 GMT William Benzon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/566 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/566 I¹ve not read it but I¹ve read early drafts of most of the chapters. Yes, it¹s full of ideas. As for the adaptive function of literature, I doubt that Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:20:57 GMT Tim Horvath http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/565 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/565 That should've read, Perhaps we are predisposed to come up with unitary explanations as individuals, but as readers, when we pan back and take a look at the