[lbo-talk] More on Kenneally

Matthias Wasser matthias.wasser at gmail.com
Sat Jul 11 18:41:59 PDT 2009


On Jul 11, 2009, at 7:48 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


>
> Ya know, evolutionary psychology, despite being immoral, er,
> antihuman, must be broadly right, given that different species have
> different psychologies. It is not often that I feel compelled to
> migrate south in the winter, gather food for the queen and her
> larvae, or mark my territory with urine. I wonder what the reason
> for this is. It's a mystery!

EP is a pretty specific research program. Does not being a bird entail massive modularity, psychological fixity at the Neolithic, panadaptationism, the epistemic validity of a bunch of specific ways of find transhistoric truths about humanity, &c?

Evolutionary psychology isn't the claim that psyches are the product of evolution any more than historical materialism is the claim that matter has a history.



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