EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY IS HERE TO STAY: A RESPONSE TO BULLER

[Gravitycollapse]

3. Evolutionary psychology, for the most part, is no more falsifiable than blank slate theories.

There are of course fairly obvious forms of inherited traits that can be observed in humans not subjected to social conditioning. Like instincts. But, beyond that, evolutionary psychology is really nothing other than attempt to make broad reaching hypotheses that are structured in such a way that even disproving proves the hypotheses.

One of the issues is affirming the consequent. Which can be okay for inductive strength under certain conditions. But, generally speaking, is rather pigheaded.

Not that I'm saying this is a unique trait of ES. In fact most theories on social structure suffer from these weakness. What I have a problem with, however, is people who claim ES is somehow above all other theories and this if often the case because there is a very specific agenda at play. They want to construct hypotheses that serve their own preconceived narratives.