What if people could read postmodernism, understand it and still not think it worthwhile? So fed up with this refusal to accept that informed disagreement can exist. I get it from theologians too. It just ends conversation.https://twitter.com/johndavidebert/status/1051197804004040705 …
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Except there is numerous criticism towards evolutionary psychology for presenting many theories that can't be properly tested and not been empirically collaborated. EP suffered from too many looking at it as the answer to every question. Chomsky has a pretty good criticism of it
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That's why they're hypotheses. Evo psych can show certain things to exist and hypothesise about why.
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"You find that people cooperate, you say, 'Yeah, that contributes to their genes' perpetuating.' You find that they fight, you say, ‘Sure, that’s obvious, because it means that their genes perpetuate and not somebody else's..."
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I understand if you don't find that interesting. But we did evolve competitive & co-operative behaviours as the rest of the social mammals did.
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I do find it interesting. I just don't think the field of evolutionary psychology does a good job studying it, for the most part.
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I tend to think it does because it is always tentative and wary of reaching firm conclusions. It's almost never them who make simplistic claims as tho they are facts.
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