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...feeling that Dennett is writing for his peers is reinforced by the fact that much of the book, including some whole chapters, are dedicated to taking on individual scientists who aren't pure enough Darwinian for Dennett's taste. His standard for orthodoxy is simple and strict: there are those who believe in "skyhooks," metaphysical interventions in human development which make us qualitatively different from all other creatures, and those, like him, who believe that "cranes," mechanisms which arise only from natural selection, can explain selection, everything that sets humanity apart...
...Recruiting is a Darwinian process. It'sbrutal. It's not always very clear as to thecriteria," Weisberg says...
Mendelsohn's professional interest, of course, is in the history of science. His popular core courses "Darwinian Revolution" and "Science and Society in the Twentieth Century" explore the interaction of scientific ideas with social practices. Mendelsohn's own work considers the external effects of science, like war, as well as its internal structure--how scientific institutions are organized, for instance, and the "ethos of research...
...mention a cheap imitation of Republican pandering. But it wasn't viewed as surprising. Politics is pandering in a hyperdemocracy; to lead is to follow. Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution sees this as one of the great social costs of modern information technology: in a kind of Darwinian process, hyperdemocracy weeds out politicians with the sort of strong internal principles that defy public opinion. "The advantage enjoyed by people willing to trim their views to the tastes of the electorate was smaller back when you couldn't find out what the electorate thought," Aaron says. Today, "few of those...
...strong," that is, to produce works worthy of the Canon, must first confront and somehow conquer the power of "strong" writers who preceded them: "Any strong literary work creatively misreads and therefore misinterprets a precursor text or texts." What others simply regard as literary imitation Bloom recasts as Darwinian or Freudian struggles for dominance: "Tradition is not only a handing-down or process of benign transmission; it is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration, in which the prize is literary survival or canonical inclusion...