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In article <807474122snz@longley.demon.co.uk>,
David Longley  <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>'Context', according to the Quine-Duhem thesis, extends well beyond the 
>pages as I suspect you fully appreciate.
>
>In article <3vr0qn$jhh@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk>
>           A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk "Aaron Sloman" writes:
>
><snip>
>> 
>> Well, let's have a friendly bet. In 200 or 500 years time we'll put
>> down our harps, borrow a couple of telescopes, and look to see
>> whether schools have developed to the point where all kids learn
>> mathematics, science, grammar, philosophy, history, etc. and learn
>> it well and enjoy learning it, and where, above all, none of them
>> are turned off mathematics.
>> 
>> Then we can check to find out whether the revolution came because
>> lots of behavioural scientists studied which patterns of external
>> stimulation produced which kinds of behaviour (as you'd claim), or
>> whether it was because cognitive scientists succeeded in analysing
>> the information-processing involved in learning mathematics (and
>> other things) and how the motivational system works, and used their
>> new cognitive theories to design effective educational strategies
>> (as I'd claim).
>> 
>> Then maybe we'll agree on who is right. Maybe even Quine will?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Aaron
>> --
>We may not have to wait that long. I understand Quine's 'From Stimulus to
>Science' is about to be published by Harvard  Press.  I suspect  that the 
>behaviour scientists working in neuroscience will be the ones to work out
>what processes are  involved in learning and  motivation.

Um, wanna bet?

>I  only got out 
>of the field because it seemed like a long term jig-saw puzzle and wanted
>to do something more practical. I suspect a more immediate test of what I
>am proposing will be to watch how well the Prison Service's recent policy
>on Incentives, Privleges and Differential Regimes works  out (announced a 
>couple of months back by the Home Secretary). Alas, with all these things
>there are lots of ceteris paribus clauses.
>-- 
>David Longley


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