By way of Pandagon, I came across this good rebuttal by David J. Buller of evolutionary psychology. He's certainly nicer about it than I am, since I think much of EP exists to justify middle-aged faculty sleeping with their younger graduate students. As the kids say, read the whole thing.
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I don't usually read your blog, so I don't know whether you're just being facetious, but isn't that just a touch unfair? There is plenty of controversy about the philosophical implications of eve psych, but I pretty much agree with Janet Radcliffe Richards in Human Nature After Darwin that there just aren't any... (and that's pretty much what evolutionary psychologists themselves think).
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