Philosophy
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Introduction

The study of philosophy begins with questions that are as personal as they are universal: What truths can I know? How should I live? Who, or what, am I? Where is my place in the grand scheme of things? To respond fruitfully to such questions requires training in critical habits of mind, learning from the rich traditions and the great minds that have reflected on such questions and engaging in lively discussion with a community of inquirers. Seattle University undergraduate philosophy courses communicate the value of philosophy and impart knowledge of its most influential figures. Courses in the curriculum help students to bring their own intellectual concerns into dialogue with great minds of the past and present, and to hone skills of reasoning and argumentation that make that questioning illuminating, reliable, and useful.  Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair Scholar Seminar Series

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Against Evolutionary Psychology

Matthew Rellihan

Dec. 7, 2009

4:00-6:00pm

Wyckoff Auditorium

Are our minds designed to ensure the survival of our genes?  If evolutionary psychologists are to be believed, the answer is yes.  Men are designed for promiscuity and shallowness, women for motherhood and cupidity, and both are designed for aggression, jealousy, deception and self-deception, insularity, pusillanimity, egocentricity, and a host of other vices. To ensure that our genetic lineages would not be short, evolution designed us to be both nasty and brutish. 

Predictably, evolutionary psychology has become wildly popular—both within the ivory tower and without.  Dr. Rellihan’s paper argues that despite its popularity, there’s little reason to believe that any of it is true.  When analyzed critically, evolutionary psychology, it turns out, is just bad biology.

For more information contact: Kate Reynolds, 206-296-5470 or reynoldk@seattleu.edu.


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Daniel Dombrowski, Professor of Philosophy, received the Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award for his latest publication Rethinking the Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Response.  Please read more on the award.  Alpha Sigma Nu Award

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