[Marxism] Evolutionary Psychology Dismantled

[Steve Heeren <tzsche@xxxxxxx>]

re: evolutionary psychology dismantled.

with friends like this who needs enemies?  the problem with EP is that 
it is a form of biological determinism (BD).  you don't even have to be 
"marxist" in orientation to disagree with that.

as for the biological imperative to feed ourselves (and organize 
production accordingly) even that is not universal (as required by 
positing something as true for the whole human race), since some humans 
kill themselves via an act of suicide. where is the biological 
imperative in that?  of course, EP has conjured up the idea of a suicide 
gene, but it didn't wash.

there is just no evidence that any biological state, including a "state 
of the brain", gives rise to a particular idea (a mental state) or 
content of mind.  EP  doesn't grasp any of this, partly because its 
practitioners  don't have a clue about (dialectical) thought and, given 
their political outlook in general, don't care to.

Science for the People: where are you --  now that we need you??

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