The Terry Deacon Affair -- Plagiarism or Worse?

"It is now clear that she recognized some of these connections well before me.
So I agree that her work deserves better attention than it has received.
Should I apologize to everyone I didn’t cite? I don’t think so.” Terry Deacon

This behavior would not be tolerated from a student -- so why is UC Berkeley allowing a senior professor to commit plagiarism?

Copy of Formal Plagiarism Complaint to UC Berkeley
Supplement to the Complaint
Berkeley's Formal Response

Link to the Linguistic Forensics Tool

The Juarrero Book

Dynamics in Action was published in 1999..
The Thompson Book

Mind in Life was published in 2007
The Deacon Book

Incomplete Nature was published in November 2011
The Reviews

The reviewers find significant problems with Deacon's sourcing, attributions, claims of originality, and ignorance of the current literature.

See the links below.
The Controversy

It has been alleged that Deacon took much of his argumentation from Juarrero and Thompson. The picture shows Deacon and Juarrero at a 2007 conference where they both gave keynotes.

See the documents below.

Why This Site?

Terry Deacon was asked in Nov. 2011, when his book came out, to acknowledge that many of the ideas and argumentation contained therein
were first to be found in Alicia Juarrero's 1999 book and in Evan Thompson's 2007 book.

Deacon refused to make these acknowledgements. On closer examination a disturbing pattern of "borrowings" seemed to emerge. Thus the question: When Does A Lack of Attribution and Citations Threaten Academic Integrity?

The Terry Deacon Affair

The Juarrero Book

The Thompson Book

The Deacon Book

The Reviews

The Controversy

Why This Site?

The Reviews

Blog Links

Copies of Emails