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	<title>Plato's Beard &#187; Reductionism</title>
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		<title>Is it worth it, let me work it!</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/332</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Scratch even a leftist in the West and you will often find a hippie-hating individualist/reductionist. Every since Dawkins and Sokal, Summers and Pinker did a number on their brethren, many leftists have been labouring (no pun intended) hard to distance themselves from any feel good, &#8220;new age&#8221;, hippie type framework or explanations. This has to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloodthirstiness by any other name?</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/319</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Evo Psychology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Winding down a tediously long essay describing in detail the vengeance driven tribal battles in New Guinea, Jared Diamond finds in them a justification and need for bloodthirstiness:
Annals of Anthropology: Vengeance Is Ours: The New Yorker
[...]
We regularly ignore the fact that the thirst for vengeance is among the strongest of human emotions. It ranks with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Not so] Black and White</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/258</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If there is one valuable insight that philosophers of science and sociologists have demonstrated it is that issues in science (and metascience) are frequently decided (or at least argued) in quite non-&#8221;scientific&#8221; ways (by which I mean what is generally claimed to be the scientific way &#8212; in truth a formalisation of rationality, common sense, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IQ and the poverty of thought</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/230</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This from The Observer:
Low IQs are Africa&#8217;s curse, says lecturer &#124; The Observer
The London School of Economics is embroiled in a row over academic freedom after one of its lecturers published a paper alleging that African states were poor and suffered chronic ill-health because their populations were less intelligent than people in richer countries.
Satoshi Kanazawa, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competition and Reductionism</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/229</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reductionism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scientism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two things, in my opinion, define the post-socialist, post-communal turn (1980 onwards) more than others: 1) Competition and 2) Reductionism. They are the result of an unholy combination of scientism and capitalism (hyper-individualism). The former (hyper-competition) pits us against each other relentlessly, both by pushing to the extremes the effects of success and failure, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genetic inheritence through RNA</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/91</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2006 02:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reductionism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Next time you meet a reductionist, you can wave this bit of news at him!&#160;
BBC &#124; Spotty mice flout genetics laws

[...]&#160;
 The scientists, based at the French Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) and the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, used mice which carry one normal version of Kit and one mutant version, giving them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bicycle is not enough</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/70</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 03:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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&#160;


I was re-reading Philip Kitcher&#8217;s comprehensive critique of SocioBiology over the weekend. Titled &#34;Vaulting Ambition&#34; its a serious and detailed work that&#160; works through the arguments and the models. The book has the convincing mathematics inside; I will stop at posting the more simple and emotional appeal in the introduction:



&#160;A Bicycle Is Not Enough


When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for Paradoxes</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/46</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Reductionism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an NYT Op-Ed piece, Matthew Pearl talks about the recent Larry Summers eviction at Harvard and ties it to larger historical developments. He starts out normally enough:
How the Liberal Arts Got That Way - New York Times
By MATTHEW PEARL
BEFORE Lawrence Summers announced his resignation as president of Harvard on Tuesday, the last upheaval of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Machismo takes another reality bite</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/41</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/41#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reductionism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rigour is often confused with toughness and it is only a short leap from there to machismo. We are urged to accept various theories not on the basis of rigourous proof or reasoned argument, but through what is the equivalent of &#8220;deal with it&#8221;. The left, forever afraid of being seen wussy, is often first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Sloan Wilson on niceness and religion</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/40</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/40#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My previous entry was about the thoughts of a particular philosophical/biological group  (neo-darwinism, darwinian fundamentalism, evo psychology, etc) on religion. Below is an essay on David Wilson, a biologist with a different approach and attitude. Edward Wilson too has suggested that religion (what others have called the religion meme) evolves due to its fitness [...]]]></description>
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