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Why do so many philosophers dismiss evolutionary psychology?
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Philosophers have often been critical of evolutionary psychology for the same reasons that biologists and psychologists have often been: typically, out of a combination of concerns that it (i) has a pseudo-scientific methodology that produces just-so stories rather than scientific knowledge, on the grounds that the elements used in the classical form of evolutionary psychological explanation are untestable;
and, that it (ii) rests on false premises like hyper-adaptationism. Viz. the inference, central to classical evolutionary psychological methodology, that since an organism has a trait that trait is the product of an adaptation, is widely regarded as resting on an account of evolutionary adaptation that has been refuted on scientific grounds.