I’m admittedly not an everyday practitioner of Evolutionary Psychology, but in the post you link, your reasoning/views look to me pretty compatible with my understanding of Evolutionary Psychology. Your views on it there sound to me rather like Sturgeon’s Law — one can agree with the aims and underlying paradigm of a field while still thinking that many of the ideas proposed by current practitioners of it are mistaken. Evolutionary arguments are a lot easier to make than to test experimentally, especially about social primates.
I’m admittedly not an everyday practitioner of Evolutionary Psychology, but in the post you link, your reasoning/views look to me pretty compatible with my understanding of Evolutionary Psychology. Your views on it there sound to me rather like Sturgeon’s Law — one can agree with the aims and underlying paradigm of a field while still thinking that many of the ideas proposed by current practitioners of it are mistaken. Evolutionary arguments are a lot easier to make than to test experimentally, especially about social primates.