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Evolutionary psychology

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Denyse O'Leary
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December 2, 2021
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Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Evolutionary psychology: When we looked in, no one was there…

Denyse O'Leary
December 2, 2021
Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, Mind
Evo psych likely got started when psychologists wanted to get in on illuminating findings in evolution, like the Cambrian Explosion. Trouble is, there aren’t any prehumans around. And we don’t have a good reason to believe that early humans differed much from us in psychology. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 24, 2021
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Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, Religion
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At Mind Matters News: Compassion and religion: Darwin’s unscratchable itches

Denyse O'Leary
October 24, 2021
Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, Religion
If one’s research is in a hole as deep as evolutionary psychology is when accounting for compassion, why not stop digging? Stop digging? The hole evolutionary psychologists are digging IS the enterprise. Any motive that didn’t merely spread selfish genes would be invisible to them. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 4, 2020
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Animal minds, Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, Mind
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What happens when a pair of evolutionary anthropologists try their hand at dealing with existential grief, anxiety, and depression?

Denyse O'Leary
October 4, 2020
Animal minds, Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, Mind
Probably, any perspective that sees humans as merely evolved animals will offer platitudes and prescriptions for suffering, rather than insight or inspiration. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 5, 2020
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Creationism, Darwinism, Evolutionary psychology
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Creationism is EVERYWHERE you look now…

Denyse O'Leary
June 5, 2020
Creationism, Darwinism, Evolutionary psychology
Most likely, “emotions research” is nonsense. But tying it to Darwinism means that its practitioners can hammer down hard on that lectern even if they are not making sense to the people whose emotions they are supposed to be describing. It's all those people's fault for being "creationists." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 14, 2020
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Evolutionary psychology
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Rob Sheldon on the prof who challenges evo psych: Covering her tracks carefully…

Denyse O'Leary
May 14, 2020
Evolutionary psychology
Sheldon: Did you notice how Smith trashes Evolutionary Psychology because it uses "circular" reasoning? Then she realizes it sounds like an ID criticism, so she rushes to defend the remaining Evolutionary sciences with this paragraph… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 13, 2020
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Philosopher challenges evolutionary psychology

Denyse O'Leary
May 13, 2020
Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design
But that’s not the amazing part. The amazing part is the admission of skepticism at a popular scitech mag. Hey, we can provide lots of examples of flapdoodle. But we took for granted that all these science writers actually believed in it. And not wanting to just pick a stupid useless fight with true believers, we mostly talked (well, okay, hooted, really) among ourselves… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 16, 2020
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Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design
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At Evolution Institute, of all places, evolutionary psychology is savaged

Denyse O'Leary
January 16, 2020
Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design
Philosopher of biology Subrena E. Smith: Furthermore, evolutionary psychological hypotheses turn on inferences about hypothetical structures for which there is a dearth of empirical support, and there is no evidence that the minds of our prehistoric ancestors possessed this sort of architecture. Read More ›