Which is kind of my points. Psychology as a discipline has already abandoned its old motives and has essentially been assimilated to a paradigm represented by biology. Consequently, it makes sense to examine what's left as a function of evolution, evolutionary theory being the organizing principle ...

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This is a sidebar spinning out of this thread: http://www.booktalk.org/post26805.html#26805 I'm posting in this section, since that's where the original thread was placed. Having posted it here, I think that it might be best if both threads were moved to religion and philosophy or science and techno...

Insult my children why don't ye! :wink: Psychology, for that matter, is a bit of a distortion, if you take the word literally. After all, it no longer claims to deal with anything resembling a psyche, and probably isn't that far off from being absorbed into the discipline of neurology. Well the psyc...

It is impossible to imagine a situation where violent attacks on peacefully protesting Christian nuns would be tolerated, but it is equally impossible to imagine a situation where the current regime would have tolerated their presence to begin with. Burma doesn't exist within the interventionist pow...

Are you saying that our morals are developed through reasoning and life experience? In some cases and to a certain degree, yes. Can you give me an example of this? What might one person be genetically predisposed to? We call it a genetic predisposition because its emergence is dependent on environm...

Question 2: Again assuming that this study is correct in their findings, what does this mean philisophically? If we are born with a sense of right and wrong, how can diet sway our inborn morality? If we only learn through our senses, or reason, or some combination of both, how to we explain how die...

MadArchitect wrote: (Incidentally, to tie this in to another discussion we're having on BookTalk, the same objection applies to any attempt to justify moral systems on the basis of so-called evolutionary psychology.

Slightly off topic, but hopefully you can clear this up quickly: Why so-called?

An interesting development, bet Bush wishes he hadn't been arguing that nations were entitled to attack other nations that act as safe havens for terrorists: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7043170.stm Two senior US officials have flown to Turkey hoping to stem a deterioration in the two Nato alli...