jim
--- andie nachgeborenen
<andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Too vague a criticism of too vague a target.
> Contrary
> to the received view on the left, it's not crazy to
> think that the fact that we are biological
> organisms,
> specifically primate with the central nervous
> systems
> of hunter-gatherers, is likely to do some
> explanatory
> work in accounting for our behavior. Whether certain
> evolutionary theories help explain certain
> behaviors,
> you have to look case by case at the explanation of
> the traits in question.
>
> Obviously in saying this I do not sign up for the
> view
> that capitalism, hierarchy, patriarchy, sexism, and
> war are encoded in our genes, thus natural,
> unchangeable, good, justifiable, and to be
> encouraged.
> However it will be so taken by some here.
>
> jks
>
> --- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > One of the remarkable things about this list is
> that
> > it attracts a vast gallery
> > of eyeballs -- many more *lurkers* than regular
> > participants.
> >
> > So I'm sure someone out there -- perhaps an evo
> > psych enthusiast so enraged by
> > this attack on their field they knocked the
> > neolithic man action figure from
> > their desk -- is readying a learned reply.
> >
> >
> > Still...
> >
> >
> > I became convinced evo psych was not quite the
> > nutritious meal its boosters
> > claimed when, several years ago, I watched a PBS
> > program on the topic.
> >
> > A group of evo psych adepts sat around a table
> being
> > interviewed by a PBS worthy.
> > It was a televised orgy of academic confidence.
> > They were convinced, they were,
> > that before too long, every aspect of human
> behavior
> > would be explained using evo
> > psych research techniques (which, to my
> > non-specialist ears, sounded a lot like
> > *once upon a time, pre-historic people did X,
> > therefore, modern phenomena Y*
> > repeated over and over again).
> >
> > When it comes to evaluating theory, I'm old
> > fashioned: if you claim to explain
> > everything, I begin to suspect that perhaps,
> you're
> > explaining nothing.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > .d.
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