Blogs Posts on "Evolutionary Psychology"

Mentoring at the University Level~ how you the student benefits by PSI Tutor: Academic Mentor on Sep 29, 2009“This mentorship thing has cemented my interest in evolutionary psychology,” Conroy-Beam says. “My mentor’s not just a guy I work for, he’s a guy I work with, learn from, get to help.” Getting to see Lewis’s life as a graduate student h...

Why Religion May Not be Hard-Wired by The Church of Jesus Christ on Aug 19, 2009Before I get to the pesky new data, it’s worth emphasizing that there are intriguing neurobiological findings suggesting that the brain may indeed be wired for God. In addition to the habits of thought that lead us to see the supernatural in th...

Darwinism:What does it mean for “responsibility” and “altruism”? (Part 4) by xenophon-19 on Aug 1, 2009Looking now at altruism we will assume that we can have free will, and will be asking the next question, which is – can our choices be moral? The two conditionals I will look at are: if we are only the result of natural selection, altruism is an il...

Darwinism: What does it mean for “responsibility” and “altruism”? (Part 3) by xenophon-19 on Jul 25, 2009This leads us onto the next divide on the scope of Darwinism, dualism/materialism and the problem of determinism. In both above views of materialism, humans are only products of forces that existed before us, so we cannot be responsible. The implicat...

Darwinism: What does it mean for “responsibility” and “altruism”? (Part 2) by xenophon-19 on Jul 18, 2009There are certain conditions under which people are not normally blamed for something they have done. These are quite familiar: mental incapacity, illness, provocation, self-defence, insanity etc. In some of these cases we regard blame and punishment...

Darwinism? What does it mean for “responsibility” and “altruism”? by xenophon-19 on Jul 11, 2009Before understanding what the implications of Darwinism are for the ideas of responsibility and altruism, I will consider what our ideas about both these terms actually mean. Very briefly, responsibility is the capacity for free will, that we are ind...

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Is Evolutionary Psychology Just Sociology in Disguise? by Sociology Eye on Apr 2, 2009by theoryforthemasses A recent book written by philosopher Dennis Dutton draws from the burgeoning field of evolutionary psychology to explain the biological foundations of creativity.  Dutton attempts to synthesize Darwin’s theory of evolutio...

Evolutionary Psychology of Human Nature by Bright Eyes on Jan 25, 2009Let's first discuss the basic human nature that our very evolutionary psychology on this planet imparted to us. We were animals till not very long ago. The animal psyche is always a very cautious one. Be it a lion or a mouse, both are equally worried

Evolutionary Psychology of Human Nature by Bright Eyes on Jan 25, 2009Let's first discuss the basic human nature that our very evolutionary psychology on this planet imparted to us. We were animals till not very long ago. The animal psyche is always a very cautious one. Be it a lion or a mouse, both are equally worried