The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition
Forthcoming Cognitive sciencecultural evolutionEmotionphilosophical psychologyRami GabrielStephen T. Asma
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This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
David Sloan Wilson’s soon-to-be released book. cultural evolutiondarwinDavid Sloan Wilsonevolutionary biologyEvolutionary PsychologyFriedrich Hayek
The Regulation of Language
Here’s a most interesting article that reemphasizes the functional beauty of the Anglophone tradition of common law and language. As Givati points out, English, be it “BBC standard” or Jamaican (and everything in between), is essentially of a distributed character. This is one of the reasons why English is so adaptable (science and business), so culturally rich,…
Cultural “Appropriation”
A misnomer if ever there was one. It’s the time of year (Halloween) when the ritualized faux outrage, the pearl-clutching virtue-signaling, often emanating from naively rationalistic and vain “Chardonnay socialists”, reaches fever-pitch. Conceptually lazy and illiterate concerning complexity and the evolutionary dynamic of spontaneous order (i.e. culture, for better or worse), they are doomed (pardon the…
The ideological opposition to biological truth
Jerry Coyne’s latest on his blog Why Evolution is True. To claim that there are no evolutionary differences in behavior and psychology between men and women is fatuous. anti-sciencecultural evolutionevolutionary biologyEvolutionary Psychologyideologuesideologyjerry coyneregressive left
Well said Daryl: “Academia? Now, there’s a hotbed of idiocy”
One of the current debates is over “cultural appropriation” – The idea that white people should not appropriate the culture of ethnic and racial minorities. I know that you don’t like the term “blue eyed soul.” Have you followed this conversation? Are you trying to say that I don’t own the style of music that…
