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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And yes, that doesn't mean every person in the field was bad. But there were way too many who presented it as the solution to every question based on hypothesis, not actually anything testable
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Replying to @WildBillWellman @tonytost
We can't test the evolution of human brains. It would be unethical and take far too long to be feasible. We can be pretty sure they evolved tho and formulate hypotheses for what environmental pressures caused them looking at what is known & other animals.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @tonytost
Do I believe that evolution influenced psychology? Yes. Do I trust that the field of evolutionary psychology to tell us how it has? No. Because they can't test it. So they resort too much to guess work imo. Theories that sound just right that can't be tested.
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OK. They're not theories tho. They are hypotheses and the conversation continues.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @tonytost
Lack of space made me choose the wrong term. That and I'm getting sleepy.
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