The UPENN piece is another connection I have wondered about.
The clinician in me has pieced together how he rationalized/justified what he was doing:
As folks here know, my primary focus and frame re the JH is on self-consciousness and culture. Mercier is a cognitive scientist who focuses on “cognition.” (An interesting side conversation might focus on the relation between these two concepts).
And he lives in cognitive science circles that are different from mine. So, the “reason-giving” that Mercier went through in his how mind was: “Here is an interesting idea. But it really is on a totally different topic, and the experts in my field don’t know about it and it really is not relevant because we do cognitive science stuff and Henriques is out there promoting his crazy theory to god knows who.” Of course, as his initial denial suggests, he knows this doesn’t fly in the real world of argumentation and legitimacy, but the self-consciousness system is designed for some deception 😊.
The dynamics of how this rationalization took hold becomes clearer when we consider Dan Sperber’s character structure. A dominant alpha male who is so confident his thoughts are the cutting edge that he has no need to review the literature. Thus, Mercier ingratiates himself to the dominant male, and plants seeds with Sperber that human reason is really about justification. Sperber has been in the general ballpark of such notions, and his arrogance allows him to think he came up with the idea and boom, you have book. A book that claims a new theory of human cognition is that we have a cognitive mechanism that functions to “help us justify our beliefs and actions to others, convince them through argumentation, and evaluate the justifications and arguments that others address to us” (from the book summary).
Pretty unbelievable indeed.
G
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Gregg,
Again...wow. Just...wow.
I looked online and noticed Mercier was also a post-doc at the University of Pennsylvania where you were an assistant professor for a stint. Not sure if that's relevant, but quite a coincidence!
~ Jason
On Tuesday, August 7, 2018, 10:11:35 AM EDT, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Correct.
The situation is even worse. I then discovered that PRIOR to my contacting Hugo Mercier in Sept of 2013, he was first author on a Apr 2013 article (The place of evolved cognition in scientific thinking<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.tandfonline.com_doi_abs_10.1080_2153599X.2013.767036&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=ATyweuciVIZrq3jHqFXy9t89EGeqkN4l_sSzIwREcZ8&s=SiR7EujRHRBGaJx_3ZFN9e2qQ3dpl-agAvggh6q4wRU&e=>) that cited Keith Stanovich’s 2004 commentary on my work<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.gregghenriques.com_uploads_2_4_3_6_24368778_metarepresentation.pdf.&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=ATyweuciVIZrq3jHqFXy9t89EGeqkN4l_sSzIwREcZ8&s=cpBOU1ZFZewE9OpbL7SqrgvGogKQwXu_aWb0g2FemjM&e=>. As you will see, Stanovich’s commentary includes my name in the title of the citation and starts off in the first paragraph with a clear comment about the Justification Hypothesis, and its relevance to the human animal divide and the concept of metarepresentation. If he read it with any seriousness (which, of course, you are supposed to have done if you cite it), he would have to have wondered what Stanovich is referring to. This is especially the case given that he is interested in how humans reason as a function of justification and that they are also interested in metarepresentation (it occupies a whole chapter in their book).
So this suggests he knew about me before I contacted him and thus feigned ignorance of my work even then. Or he is clueless to a literally unbelievable degree.
G
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Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 9:49 AM
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Gregg,
So in 2013, you had email exchanges with Mercier about the similarities between the JH and his Argumentative Theory. Mercier said the JH "was a very interesting read!", and thanked you for "sending the papers"
Mercier in 2018: "I can assure you that neither of us had ever heard of [Dr. Henriques] or his hypothesis"
Wow.
~ Jason
On Monday, August 6, 2018, 6:47:18 PM EDT, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Sure, I can probably change a faucet.
Did you read the links at the end? That is where all the stuff is. The PT people needed it to be a link, rather than directly posted.
G
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On Aug 6, 2018, at 5:00 PM, Marlene Henriques <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Gregg,
I read the blog you wrote for PT. You definitely toned it down compared to the original.
Are you sending something to Harvard Press?
We came up to VT yesterday. The guys have been outside most of the day, although it is quite warm.
Have you ever changed a faucet? Maybe you could help me do it when you are here.
Love you,
Mom
Marlene
On Aug 6, 2018, at 2:28 PM, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Hi List,
The edited blog was approved. You can see it here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/theory-knowledge/201808/the-enigma-reason-brief-review<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.psychologytoday.com_us_blog_theory-2Dknowledge_201808_the-2Denigma-2Dreason-2Dbrief-2Dreview&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=8dftTNJHbVnaMsAYYn7kRFGBDAe8w-76V7P1P-zACAI&s=gN2w39YXic8v2CAgv6ZBQIL6I-NXwFeRpxpbHaKlqwA&e=>.
Here is the full story on my webpage: https://www.gregghenriques.com/jh-dispute.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.gregghenriques.com_jh-2Ddispute.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=8dftTNJHbVnaMsAYYn7kRFGBDAe8w-76V7P1P-zACAI&s=OzwddC95KdEVhLO6POSlaKe0xtIuTZbuIvOa6cPv0VE&e=>
And here is the blog I was going to post on PT: https://www.gregghenriques.com/uploads/2/4/3/6/24368778/blog_shoddy_scholarship_or_something_more_sinister.pdf<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.gregghenriques.com_uploads_2_4_3_6_24368778_blog-5Fshoddy-5Fscholarship-5For-5Fsomething-5Fmore-5Fsinister.pdf&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=8dftTNJHbVnaMsAYYn7kRFGBDAe8w-76V7P1P-zACAI&s=jQtZP4wu7xN6vXy-1L4No46fTYQ2t4kcoDsg6JDvLOE&e=>
Please feel free to post on social media or share with whomever. I will send out a few notes to members of the press who have written on this, and will have fulfilled my need to “set the record straight.”
Best,
Gregg
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