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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 13

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted John David Ebert

      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 …

      Helen Pluckrose added,

      John David Ebert @johndavidebert
      Replying to @KevinShau @PagliaQuotes
      You might've read them but you didn't understand them. If you had then you'd be aware of their applicability to all sorts of things. I've spent decades writing books applying their ideas to very concrete things: books, films, events, etc.
      77 replies 159 retweets 912 likes
    2. Tony Tost‏ @tonytost Oct 13
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      While doing my Ph.D. in English at Duke, I jumped into post-modernism in good faith, & came out the other side w/ inclinations similar to yours. I think it's hard for postmodern folks to shake the meta-narrative that their position is some kind of final evolutionary form.

      4 replies 2 retweets 36 likes
    3. Tony Tost‏ @tonytost Oct 13
      Replying to @tonytost @HPluckrose

      Because they've internalized a narrative where there is this continuous linear progression to art & thought, one can only counter the post-modern position if one is retrograde & not properly evolved. There's no tether to anything other than this narrative.

      7 replies 2 retweets 23 likes
    4. Wild Kill Wolfman‏ @WildBillWellman Oct 13
      Replying to @tonytost @HPluckrose

      Post modernism for me always seemed to be the philosophical equivalence to evolutionary psychology.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Tony Tost‏ @tonytost Oct 13
      Replying to @WildBillWellman @HPluckrose

      Unfortunately, I don't know enough about evolutionary psychology to grasp the comparison.

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 14
      Replying to @tonytost @WildBillWellman

      I don't think there is one. Our psychology did evolve whether you believe that or not. Evolutionary psychology can be, and usually is, done well by evolutionary psychologists who are cautious about the significance of their findings which are based in empirical studies.

      1:47 AM - 14 Oct 2018
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        2. Wild Kill Wolfman‏ @WildBillWellman Oct 14
          Replying to @HPluckrose @tonytost

          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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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 14
          Replying to @WildBillWellman @tonytost

          That's why they're hypotheses. Evo psych can show certain things to exist and hypothesise about why.

          2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        4. Wild Kill Wolfman‏ @WildBillWellman Oct 14
          Replying to @HPluckrose @tonytost

          "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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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 14
          Replying to @WildBillWellman @tonytost

          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.

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        6. Wild Kill Wolfman‏ @WildBillWellman Oct 14
          Replying to @HPluckrose @tonytost

          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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        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 14
          Replying to @WildBillWellman @tonytost

          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.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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