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POPSLess Monkeys, More Hocus Pocus "Mr. Hauser has been at the forefront of a movement to show that our morals are survival instincts evolved over the millennia. When Mr. Hauser’s 2006 book “Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong” was published, evolutionary psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker proclaimed that his Harvard colleague was engaged in “one of the hottest new topics in intellectual life: The psychology and biology of morals.” “Mr. Hauser had boldly declared that through his application of science, not only could morality be stripped of any religious hocus-pocus, but philosophy would have to step aside as well: “Inquiry into our moral nature will no longer be the proprietary province of the humanities and social sciences,” he wrote.”
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POPSI am not my Genome Here is a succinct statement of an important point, and a corrective to some of the )often implicit, taken for granted) assumptions regarding research findings in biology (including neuroscience). It makes the point that within and across competing explanatory paradigms (which by the way, are constrained by the human identity they seek to explain!) an acceptance of overdetermined factors (or, if you orefer, a collection of several fifferent 'necessaries') is productive of ways of understanding and advancing research.
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