The Modularity of the Mind

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This article argues talking past each other in this debate. How is the like, how do we describe the way that the mind is organized? Is it modular, and i'll get to what that is, or is it not? And there has been sort of this beef between some cognitive psychologist, cogno scientists, and some evolutionary psychologists who ora. So i think of modularity of mine more and in the evolutionary terms, as you know, like the cheater detector.

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.