Is It a Real Masters?

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There's proposed in summer of 20 22, a course called forbidden courses horase. We count among our numbers university presidents, robert zimmer, larry somers, john news and do you see this ideological diversity just shining through here? Gordon gee. Rob henderson. I don't know some of those people. Why David mammot? You know, a great playwright. And then there's, of course, andrew sullivan, calan flannagan, amary stacy hawk, jonathan roch and nadin strasson.

David and Tamler talk about the often rancorous debate among cognitive scientists and evolutionary psychologists over whether the mind is modular -- composed of discrete systems responsible for vision, reasoning, cheater detection, sexual jealousy, and so on. David and Tamler (mostly David) describe the history of the debate, then dive into a recent paper (Pietraszewski & Wertz, 2021) arguing that virtually all the disagreement is the product of a conceptual and methodological confusion â€“ that the two sides are operating with different levels of analysis and talking past each other as a result.

Plus, we REALLY tried not to talk about the University of Austin thing for the whole opening segment. We had another topic lined up and everything. It just didnâ€™t work out. Cicero would understand. Bari Weiss stans might wanna skip to the main segment.