Evolutionary psychology's emotional foundation is simply respect for our ancestors and gratitude for their legacy.
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That's true in principle for rational cognitive agents. But it may not be enough to motivate success in grad school, for example.
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Once you introduce emotional foundations, what happens when the science turns up a fact that happens to be dissonant with those emotional foundations? What if there are alternative facts that would sound even better according to those emotional foundations?
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Then you need an emotional update, analogous to a cognitive update. A different way to map the science's (non-intuitive) content onto one's values, concerns, and motives.
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If you want good ideas to spread they need to have appealing emotional foundations to catch as many people as possible, empirically
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Why is truth a good? :P http://inters.org/Putnam-Fact-Value …
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