--- Jim <from_alamut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The real problem with evolutionary psychology is
> that
> it tries to justify current human behavior by
> projecting it backwards into pre-history.
>
> 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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