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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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.
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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.
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Replying to @tonytost @HPluckrose
Post modernism for me always seemed to be the philosophical equivalence to evolutionary psychology.
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Replying to @WildBillWellman @HPluckrose
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about evolutionary psychology to grasp the comparison.
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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.
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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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Replying to @WildBillWellman @tonytost
That's why they're hypotheses. Evo psych can show certain things to exist and hypothesise about why.
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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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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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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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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.
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