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[Anonymous No.8714855]

Is there a good philosophical reason for all this disdain for evo psych and other evolutionistic approaches in the humanities like epistemology? Is it just a left thing?

I think e.g. evo psych makes a lot of sense if you don't think in terms of strawman darwinism

Educate me please

[Anonymous No.8715080]

>>8714855
>Educate me please
Go to reddit bro.

[Anonymous No.8715113]

>>8714855

skepticism toward teleology

[Anonymous No.8715279]

>>8714855
Wait, so what occurs now that is incorrect, and what should occur? What are they doing wrong? what do you think is missing, I dont know exactly what you mean by evo psych what it entails, what would be different?

[Anonymous No.8716533]

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[Anonymous No.8716537]

>>8716533

I can't link other threads?

>>8470082

[Anonymous No.8716544]

>>8716537
The post was deleted

[Anonymous No.8716550]

>>8716544

It's still up on my end and I can post replies though...

[Anonymous No.8716567]

>>8716544
>>8716550

Opened the browser again and it's still there. Are we shadow deleting threads like reddit now? Sad.

[Anonymous No.8716626]

>>8714855
I don't know much about evo psych, but certainly can think of a few problems with that.

First of all, which school of psychology will they use to determine the "mind" and the parameters they will measure (what's memory, intelligence, social behavior, etc.?).

Second, if psychological features follow an evolutionary pattern, how are societies as we know them today explained through an evolutionary narrative?

Third and last, which approach they have on language?

Can they answer those questions successfully?

[Anonymous No.8716657]

>>8716567
You're reading too much into it with primitive people being like Christ imo. To give a "materialist" response there are a lot of animals with functionless, "real" altruism if you want to call it that. The instinct was so strong that it survived the diminishing reward until the reward died out and then you get female dogs looking after tiger cubs like they don't give a fuck. It's a thing in evolution.

[Anonymous No.8716667]

> Is it just a left thing?
Why would you even ask that?

>Is there a good philosophical reason for all this disdain for evo psych and other evolutionistic approaches in the humanities like epistemology?

I have never heard of this happening. I could only guess that people have little faith in anything psych.

[Anonymous No.8716695]

>>8716657

What I meant was the concept of life itself as eternal struggle originated in the Rational West. If you tell a Polynesian or South American tribesman of the basically murderous Machiavellianism our Society is built on, he'd probably think you're a demon from Hell.

[Anonymous No.8716697]

>>8716667
>Why would you even ask that?

OP is a troll. There's an ongoing /pol/ crossboard invasion for some reason.

[Anonymous No.8716709]

>>8714855
The reason why is because they overstep. Evolutionary psychology is useful insofar as it explains the historical roots of certain human drives and rituals.

The problem is its fundamentally reductionistic, it has no way of explaining very simple things like what a symbol is, which have no place in the animal kingdom that we evolved in but play a massive role in how we act and think. Its not that evolutionary psychology is wrong its just not good enough when you're interested in say why Captain Ahab wanted to kill the whale, or why Raskalnikov killed the old bitch

[Anonymous No.8716713]

You asked for a philosophical reason.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phc1ac.htm

(Hegel comments about phrenology and pieces of skull, which albeit are based on a pseudo science, while genetics is not, the reductionism itself that is derived from both of them is the same)