From: Jkr438@aol.com
Date: Tue 13 May 2003 - 22:03:12 GMT
For those interesting, the following is an announcement from the Church of
the Virus for a chat this evening, May 13th. These moderated chats have been
well attended and a lot of fun for people who enjoy serious and intelligent
topics and discussions. You can get to the chat channels at:
<A HREF="http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=2;action=chat">http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=2;action=chat>
The #virus channel is open for informal chat before 2100 CST, and people
often show up early to chew the cud and get acquainted both before and after
the chats.
-Jake Sapiens
[David Lucifer]
Evolutionary Psychology chat tonight 2100h CST
Evolutionary psychology primer>>
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html
http://virus.lucifer.com/wiki/VirusWeeklyChat
[rhinoceros]
If you want to find some ready objections to or defenses of evolutionary
psychology for today's chat in #virus, here is an interesting 11-page
article:
Essay Review
Alas Poor Evolutionary Psychology:
Unfairly Accused, Unjustly Condemned
By Robert Kurzban
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/apd.html
or in PDF format
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/apd.pdf
The objections addressed, successfully or not:
First Charge: Genetic Determinism
Second Charge: Panadaptationism
Third Charge: Unfalsifiable hypotheses
Fourth Charge: Proximate Explanations
Fifth Charge: Evolutionary Claims are Political, not Scientific
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