From: "Phil Roberts, Jr." 
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 22:14:13 -0500

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        Feelings of Worthlessness From the
        Perspective of So-Called Cognitive Science

        An Amateur Psychologist's Documented Chronologue
        of a Frustrating Conversation With
        'The Society for Philosophy and Psychology'
        Regarding a Psychical Anomaly

        Phil Roberts, Jr.


My crusade for a hearing for a divergent theory of
emotion turns up evidence that the hold up in psychology may 
be due in part to the recalcitrance of an academic community 
more concerned with promoting a materialist metaphysics than 
with understanding human nature.

The dialogue which serves as the platform for my commentary can
perhaps be most succinctly approached allegorically in which I,
as an amateur psychologist, get to play the role of Dorothy, and
members of the executive committee of 'The Society for Philosophy
and Psychology (Georges Rey, Robert Matthews, William Lycan, Fred
Dretske, D. C. Dennett) get to play the role of the great and
powerful Oz. And, as I assume we all remember, after traveling
long and hard in search of answers, I arrive at the Emerald Palace
only to be treated to a display of fireworks and meaningless one
liners.  All is not lost, however, for in the finale we actually
do learn something, in that we get to see the stuff Ozzy is really
made of, courtesy of my little dog, Toto, of course (i.e., this
paper and the fortuitous emergence of the internet).

Topics include the philosophy of science (paradigm conflict),
philosophy of psychology (introspection, Nisbett and Wilson),
emotional disorder, rationality, free will, artificial intelligence
(computationalism, Lucas/Godel), and evolution (kin selection,
sociobiology).


        Preface
        Part I (First Year)
        Part II (Second Year)
        References (Circulated and Uncirculated)

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Phil Roberts, Jr.

Feelings of Worthlessness from the Perspective of
So-Called Cognitive Science

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