I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
By the way, since I've lately ben haunted by LVMI cult members wishing to denigrate my accomplishments, let me say that the people who gave me this post -- yes, yes it's "just" at a community college -- said (I paraphrase) "We usually don't hire people with no teaching experience, but your academic publication record is so outstanding that we want you anyway" -- and these were people who have never heard of either Mises or Rothbard.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Professor! It sounds like an interesting course, what texts will you be using?
ReplyDeleteProfessor! That is awesome...what a great achievement. Thinking back about eight years we were sitting in the village drinking Monday afternoons with 'real' professors and now you join the ranks. I love it!
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Gene.
ReplyDeleteRegarding Gene's opponents and their criticisms: It wasn't purely out of my gentlemanly nature to not take part in the "Gene is a loser who dropped out of LSE" approach. I knew that it wouldn't last very long and so was a very short-term approach.
In contrast, I choose to criticize Gene for his deep-seated personality flaws. (Email me if you want the list.) These will never change and so my criticisms will ring true with Gene's biographers in 100 years.
Incidentally, it seems that those wishing to smear Gene could have some fun with the course he is actually going to teach. Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteHey Professor,
ReplyDeleteIs your CV online anywhere? I want to see exactly what impressed these folks. (Whatever a CV needs to look like, apparently mine didn't. So I'm curious...)
"...these were people who have never heard of either Mises or Rothbard."
ReplyDeleteObviously.
""We usually don't hire people with no teaching experience, but your academic publication record is so outstanding that we want you anyway"
Was it your Karen DeCoster comments that clinched it?
Now an LVMI cult? You do see an awful lot of cults surrounding you. Have you talked to a professional about this?
BTW: Congratulations, welcome to the racket.
Now that you are a card carrying member, I will have to go easier on you.
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