BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 RDATE:20130310T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 RDATE:20131103T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130411T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130411T170000 LOCATION:JRHH 102 SUMMARY:"Evolutionary Theory as Methodological Anesthesia: Methodological and Philosophical Lessons from "Evolutionary Psychology"" Dick Boyd (Lew is & Clark College and Cornell University) DESCRIPTION:According to mainstream 'evolutionary psychology' evolutionar y theory makes an important methodological contribution to human social p sychology. \;Plausible evolutionary scenarios regarding early human social behavior are said to provide a methodologically independent source of insights\, identifying some psychological theories as those 'predicte d' or otherwise especially supported by evolutionary theory. \;In pr actice the theories so identified are reductionist or nativist theories w hich minimize the role of social structures and of learning in explaining human social behaviors. In fact\, there is significant methodological i ndependence between evolutionary scenarios and psychological theories but that independence guarantees that such scenarios do not favor reductioni st or nativist theories over theories that emphasize the role of learning and of social structures (or vice versa). \; So\, in practice\, appe als to evolutionary theory function as a sort of methodological anesthesi a\, directing psychologists' attention away from scientifically important alternatives to reductionist or nativist theories. \; X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
According to mainstream 'evolutionary p sychology' evolutionary theory makes an important methodological contribu tion to human social psychology. \;Plausible evolutionary scenarios regarding early human social behavior are said to provide a methodologica lly independent source of insights\, identifying some psychological theor ies as those 'predicted' or otherwise especially supported by evolutionar y theory. \;In practice the theories so identified are reductionist or nativist theories which minimize the role of social structures and of learning in explaining human social behaviors.
In fact\, there is significant methodological independence between evolutionary scenarios a nd psychological theories but that independence guarantees that such scen arios do not favor reductionist or nativist theories over theories that e mphasize the role of learning and of social structures (or vice versa).&# 160\; So\, in practice\, appeals to evolutionary theory function as a sor t of methodological anesthesia\, directing psychologists' attention away from scientifically important alternatives to reductionist or nativist th eories.
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UID:20130411T223000Z-16990@www.lclark.edu DTSTAMP:20130308T142358Z URL:https://www.lclark.edu/live/events/16990-evolutionary-theory-as-metho dological-anesthesia CATEGORIES:Open to the Public LAST-MODIFIED:20130314T183018Z ATTACH:https://www.lclark.edu/live/image/gid/77/width/80/height/80/crop/1 /34873__main_image_richard-boyd-large.rev.1373936887.jpg X-LIVEWHALE-TYPE:events X-LIVEWHALE-ID:16990 X-LIVEWHALE-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles X-LIVEWHALE-IMAGE:https://www.lclark.edu/live/image/gid/77/width/80/heigh t/80/crop/1/34873__main_image_richard-boyd-large.rev.1373936887.jpg X-LIVEWHALE-CONTACT-INFO:Claire Kodachi\, Administrative Coordinator\, Ph ilosophy Department. \;503-768-7450 X-LIVEWHALE-SUMMARY:According to mainstream 'evolutionary psychology' evo lutionary theory makes an important methodological contribution to human social psychology. \;Plausible evolutionary scenarios regarding earl y human social behavior are said to provide a methodologically independen t source of insights\, identifying some psychological theories as those ' predicted' or otherwise especially supported by evolutionary theory.  0\;In practice the theories so identified are reductionist or nativist th eories which minimize the role of social structures and of learning in ex plaining human social behaviors. \;