You can follow us on gram where you can see the release of every episode. You can please rate us on apple podcasts if you listen there. At five dollars and up, you get to vote on a topic for om one of our main segments. And we're gong t talk about something even more controversial, at least in cognitive science to day. We're talking about why evolutionary psychology should abandon modularity. Where was this a nero sceptic tweat?
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 – 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 didn’t work out. Cicero would understand. Bari Weiss stans might wanna skip to the main segment.
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