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Post by Tamrin on May 29, 2013 6:46:01 GMT 10
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice
G.K. Chesterton (Born this day 1874)
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Post by Smithee on Aug 17, 2013 17:54:52 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 18, 2013 8:25:01 GMT 10
There is also a tactic I really dislike; I call it the Dignified Retreat. When criticized, evolutionary psychologists love to run away from their discipline and hide in the safer confines of more solidly founded ideas... Evolutionary psychology has its own special methodology and logic, and that’s what I criticize — not anthropology or evolutionary biology or whatever. Somehow these unique properties get conveniently jettisoned whenever a critic wanders by, only to be re-adopted without reservation within the exercise of the discipline. And that’s really annoying. The author is too kind. Rather than a "dignified retreat," in my experience it is more often a dummy spit.
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Post by Smithee on Aug 18, 2013 17:51:28 GMT 10
The author is too kind. Rather than a "dignified retreat," in my experience it is more often a dummy spit. The confusion they try to hide behind is the distinction between general and uncontroversial lower case evolutionary psychology and pseudoscientific upper case Evolutionary Psychology, with its varying degrees of innate brain modulation said to account for specific instinctual behaviours.
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 2, 2013 7:08:50 GMT 10
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom
Viktor Frankl (Died this day 1997)
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Post by Smithee on Sept 2, 2013 18:11:55 GMT 10
“The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't.” - Ernest Lord Rutherford.
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Post by Smithee on Oct 1, 2013 22:12:53 GMT 10
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Post by Smithee on Oct 1, 2013 22:25:39 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 2, 2013 7:45:30 GMT 10
"... This wrong turn has consisted of attempting to apply evolutionary theory directly to the level of manifest behavior, rather than using it as a heuristic guide for the discovery of innate psychological mechanisms." Reinforcing stereotypes is certainly not an optimal solution - It is not even satisfactory, far from it.
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 19, 2013 13:28:17 GMT 10
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