Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Evolutionary Psychology and Beyond


 This is the first time I've ever seen Steven Pinker in interview.  My first thought, watching and listening to him, is what a perfectly nice person he is, in his secular Jewish, Mendelssohnian way.  Lots nicer than Noam Chomsky, though similarly intelligent and (it just occurs to me), I suppose, similarly Jewish.  He makes utter hash of mine and Stephen Jay Gould's silly-ass, knee-jerk objections to the unknowableness of "evolution" in psychology.  Which is good, because I wasn't really at all comfortable sharing opinion/space with that loathsome bugger.   

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