Capitalism is the investor (capital) owning the company.

If employees are the owners it is not capitalism. It is a cooperative then, whether by a government issued corporate charter or not. It does not need one to exist, it is ground-up socialism in practice.

Capitalism is a set of government issued privileges that give the owner/investor 100% of the profits and views all the employees as rental equipment whose cost is paid by the customer.

That’s exactly her point. We have zero idea about human psychology before writing was a thing, and we have precious little understanding about it after that. Evo Psych assumes that what we see in modern civilized college students is equivalent to hunters on the savanna with no actual proof that this is the case. It…

Most of human history was not capitalism. That is a fairly new invention, originally a set of privileges from a monarch. It is part of what we rebelledd against in the American revolution, unfair advantages given to corporate charters over citizens, and why corporate charters are not anywhere in the Constitution.

When I am saying human created systems, politics and social systems that we employ. That is discussing the concepts, the metaphors.

I was speak in terms of human created systems, which we do have control over. And how much control we have been able to exert on our immediate environment.

Because if you have found love, compassion, kindness, solidarity, empathy, anything else we would describe as good in the universe you have found it in other humans. It is what we have created and what makes us unique in the animal kingdom.

Right!  Evo psych gender studies never seem to get even basic history right.  “Pink is a feminine color because...”. Historians, “Woah woah woah, Pink was often considered masculine!”

EvoPsych is just one of those subjects, like Austrian economics and intelligent design, that academia as a group needs to suppress in order to keep their legitimacy. They are transparently funded by white billionaires and function solely as the academic wing of their political propaganda machine.

This is a major element of my teaching philosophy.

So are Bigfoot hunters.

Archeology, anthropology sociology and psychology in general (among others) are all considered soft science. And History isn’t even a science. None of them are junk built on pure speculation.

There are multiple issues with Kinja as a commenting platform but one is that I can’t tell it to ignore comments from troll users. So trolls can come to earnest and good articles with bad faith arguments, throw those arguments everywhere, and then engage in further trolling with the commenters (or staff, in this…

Evolutionary Psychology is why we need to teach the philosophy of science in schools. Then more people would see it as bad pop science.

You’ve obviously made no effort to understand anything about the subject.

someone got an F on his philosphy essay, it seems.

I think taht what she was getting at is that there’s a lot of question-begging in evolutionary psychology - people tend to assume their conclusions and work backwards from them. Not all of it, of course, but she’s perfectly correct in saying that there’s a great deal of justifying of bad behaviour based upon…

Philosopy gives us he intellectual tools we need to understand how we’re thinking about what we’re thinking about.

So much of what I’ve seen of evolutionary psychology seems to be non-scholars seeking a way to conflate science with racism and misogyny.

Often, as Smith says above, it’s to justify a position that we (society) shouldn’t be expected to shoulder the burden to support oppressed groups, because hey, that’s just where…