Richard Spencer Type post Author Richard Weikart Date July 11, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsEvolutionEvolutionary PsychologyPsychology Tagged , __k-review, alt-right, anti-Semitism, Darwinian theory, Europeans, From Darwin to Hitler, history, inequality, James Watson, Jews, Kevin MacDonald, Nazism, neo-Nazism, Nobel Prize, Racism, Richard Spencer, Steven Pinker Evolutionary Psychology Grapples with Racism and Anti-Semitism Richard Weikart July 11, 2018 Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology 3 Kevin MacDonald is trying to resurrect this troubling legacy of Darwinian theory. Read More ›
Steven Pinker honorary degree Type post Author Richard Weikart Date February 26, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsBiologyEvolutionPsychology Tagged , __k-review, anthropology, Arthur Schopenhauer, assumptions, biases, Charles Darwin, Christa Schroeder, cranial capacity, Darwinism, Europeans, evolution, human origins, ideology, Konrad Lorenz, Nobel Prize, prejudices, pseudoscience, racial inequality, Racism, religion, scientific racism, scientists, Steven Pinker, The Descent of Man On the History of Darwinism, Scientific Racism, and Hitler, Is Steven Pinker Objective? Richard Weikart February 26, 2018 Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Psychology 5 Pinker is right that we should formulate our ideas based on evidence, not bias and preconceptions. Read More ›
Steven-Pinker Type post Author Richard Weikart Date February 24, 2018 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPsychology Tagged , __k-review, “consensus science”, altruism, assumptions, bias, Chronicle of Higher Education, David Hume, Harvard University, Lord Kelvin, objectivity, postmodernism, replication crisis, science, Steven Pinker, subjectivity, thermodynamics Is Science Objective? Steven Pinker’s Counterattack Against the “War on Science” Richard Weikart February 24, 2018 Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology 5 Unfortunately, Pinker’s overweening faith in science as a reliable path to the truth has its own problems. Read More ›
