How's it going! Hope everyone's had a good summer and even better conversations.
Sorry I disappeared, online discussions can become very addicting and time consuming, and I had too much stuff that needed my full attention. So I had to quit cold turkey lol.
But right now I need help with a class paper if anyone is interested.
The professor asked us to find any currently standing psychological theory or idea that we disagree with, and refute it and argue against it. Probably to no one's surprise here, I chose evolutionary psychology lol.
Thanks for your help.
EDIT: I took down the paper cause as Nyar pointed out, it might be flagged for plagiarism.
But here are my main 2 arguments.
1. Evolutionary Psychology does not have evidence to support it. There are no "fossils" for the mind, or for language. So the psychology of our ancestors is unknown to us.
2. Evolutionary Psychology suffers from the Infinite Regress fallacy. For example, saying we see faces in clouds, because seeing faces helped our ape-like ancestors spot predators. But if that's the case, then our ape-like ancestors should have also been bad, because their cognitive abilities were inherited from earlier rodent-like ancestors, and so on.
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