Are You Really Sad That They Didn't Invite You to Be on the Advisory Board?

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i don't want to fan the flames of a culture war that i don't particularly think is productive for anyboy. Here's the most hope giving event in higher ed in years, the launch of austin ew a new e constructed around the tilos of truth. I am proud to be on the advisory board. Now, if i was one of john hight's kids, like, that's just like, san he doesn't love me. Ha ha. It's like, you know, brying hawks in succession. Did you i feel like i must even told my daughter that there was a university i wanted her to go to because of the tea, los of anything

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.