Some years ago on lbo-talk several quite intelligent and widely read writers argued that we should take evolutionary psychology seriously because it was "scientific."
It's amazing how many people who should know better fall for that label. Carrol > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:pen-l- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Devine > Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 1:26 PM > To: Pen-l > Subject: [Pen-l] Napoleon Chagnon > > I'm not an expert on this Napoleon's work and the controversies about > it the way Louis is, but there's one thing that's come up very clearly > in reading reviews of his recent book: it's amazing how some people > (the reviewer in the NY TIMES science section a month or two ago, for > example) seem to jump to attention to support him because he claims to > be "scientific" and reject his opponents because he claims that they > are not "scientific." But his work, as far as I can tell, isn't > scientific at all. > > -- > Jim Devine / "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, > doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
