Evolutionary Psychology

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Evolutionary psychology almost presumes a kind of intentional stance view, in the sense that, like, i this is hard for me to describe. Because for me to connect with something, i have to think of me. And for me to even be fully satisfied with an explanation to think about iright? Intentionally, i think you're pointing to something that i hadn't thought about and it's just under the hood stuff that isn't a that i can't connect with.

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.