Talk:Philip Lieberman

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Recent edits

Noting here that this edit (stated to be by the subject of the article) contains text copied verbatim from the source. I'm going to look for published sources to cite to enable that material to be re-added, but have removed it for now. Carcharoth (talk) 03:04, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

More work needs doing (including adding back in some of what was removed as noted above), but for now the following changes have been made: see here. Will try and do more another time, but hopefully the rewritten article is a useful starting point. Carcharoth (talk) 06:31, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Draft notes

Adding here some draft notes:

(1) The article on the fossil on which work was done in the 1970s is here: La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1. A colleague of Lieberman is Kenneth N. Stevens. The FOXP2 gene also needs mentioning, and much more on Lieberman's research and work.
(2) Family: wife is Marcia Lieberman. Son is Daniel Lieberman, who has an article at britannica.com. More on work with his son is here and here.
(3) Religion: I removed the Jewish-American scientists category and the WikiProject Judaism tag, as I was unsure how to handle this. The (few) sources that cover this are a blog and a sermon: the blog states: "[Marcia] Lieberman heads the local chapter of Amnesty International and considers herself a Jew, a Unitarian and a Buddhist — a not unheard of mix in this congregation". The sermon, by James Ishmael Ford, touches on the topic of one of Lieberman's books: "Truthfully, this antipathy to science, particularly evolutionary science, extends beyond political party. In his forthcoming book from Princeton University Press, The Unpredictable Species, our own Philip Lieberman notes..." (full quote at link provided).
(4) Something is needed on Lieberman's place in the language instinct debate. One example is at pages 62-64 of the second edition (2005) of Educating Eve: The 'Language Instinct' Debate (the 'Educating Eve' bit was dropped from the 1997 name for the second edition) by Geoffrey Sampson.

Those are my notes so far. They should be read in conjunction with the edit mentioned in the section above. Carcharoth (talk) 12:55, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]