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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 17 Sep 2017
      Replying to @stephenbasdeo1 @chadwick_zoe

      No evolutionary psychologists claim that no-one knew a human nature existed before they came along.

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    2. Ste-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed‏ @stephenbasdeo1 17 Sep 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @chadwick_zoe

      My point was 18thc authors were exploring what people should morally do in certain situations. Hence emphasis on human nature in 18thc lit.

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 17 Sep 2017
      Replying to @stephenbasdeo1 @chadwick_zoe

      OK. I don't think anybody denies this. Religion and philosophy are also focused intensely on it. Humans are obsessed with themselves.

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    4. Ste-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed‏ @stephenbasdeo1 17 Sep 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @chadwick_zoe

      So not a profoundly new hypothesis from evo psychs then?

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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 17 Sep 2017
      Replying to @stephenbasdeo1 @chadwick_zoe

      I don't know what you mean. Evo psychs hypothesise that humans developed literature as a way to explore different scenarios.

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    6. Ste-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed‏ @stephenbasdeo1 17 Sep 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @chadwick_zoe

      My point is that authors of novels in 18thc lit were consciously doing it at the time. Hardly a profound hypothesis for modern evo psychs.

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    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 17 Sep 2017
      Replying to @stephenbasdeo1 @chadwick_zoe

      But modern evo psychs didn't hypothesise this. They make hypotheses about evolution.

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    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 17 Sep 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @chadwick_zoe

      If they hypothesise that humans became a story-telling species as a way to explore situations without actually placing themselves in it.

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    9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 17 Sep 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @chadwick_zoe

      This isn't really affected by what 18th century authors did consciously.

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    10. Ste-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed‏ @stephenbasdeo1 17 Sep 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @chadwick_zoe

      No. But to claim it as a hypothesis unique to evo psych when literary scholars have known the same thing for longer is a bit wrong.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 17 Sep 2017
      Replying to @stephenbasdeo1 @chadwick_zoe

      I really don't care enough about this to argue any more abt the difference between evolving abilities & making conscious decisions.

      4:42 PM - 17 Sep 2017
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        2. Ste-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed‏ @stephenbasdeo1 17 Sep 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @chadwick_zoe

          I'm simply stating thst lit scholars have known the connections between morality and lit for a long while.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 17 Sep 2017
          Replying to @stephenbasdeo1 @chadwick_zoe

          Over & over again no matter how many times I assure you that nobody at all denies this & neither is it the point.

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        4. Zoe Chadwick‏ @chadwick_zoe 18 Sep 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I think that you both have good points but the message is being missed abit here. Plus if you're interested in a perspective

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        5. Zoe Chadwick‏ @chadwick_zoe 18 Sep 2017
          Replying to @chadwick_zoe @HPluckrose

          on someone's work, talking by e-mail and having a fuller discussion might be more helpful? because twitter limits how much we can write

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        6. Zoe Chadwick‏ @chadwick_zoe 18 Sep 2017
          Replying to @chadwick_zoe @HPluckrose

          and I don't know about you guys but that make it hard for me to really define my terms sometimes when discussing research.

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        7. Ste-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed‏ @stephenbasdeo1 18 Sep 2017
          Replying to @chadwick_zoe @HPluckrose

          Yes indeed. Twas late and I think we were misunderstanding each other a little.

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