Why Evolutionary Psychology Should Abandon Modularity?

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i was telling that cicero, whom i've read a little bit of is also a little tomiqui. Ad, i hope, i hope his suicide was glorioushe wanted or mattobe r we're going to talk about this this thi segment is didnt didn't happen. I obviously we didn't talk about like the meri. He never got around tain question. We're talking about a built on a recen wer. But i think the conversation will be more broadly about modularity and anpsychology and what it is. This is not necessarily something be a forbidden course.

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.