Comments on The Skeptical Adaptationist: Why Constructive Engagement is Rare

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2010-03-05T15:56:51.774+01:00

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I thoroughly agree with this, and was going to wri...

2009-09-19T22:41:57.452+02:00

I thoroughly agree with this, and was going to write something similar to my own blog before I saw it just now. Communities that really value truth and critical thinking are few and far between. St. John's gave me high expectations for what honest and rational discourse looks like, and I was very disappointed to find that these values didn't hold in the real academic world, where debate

Given how adaptive mutual admiration behavior is: ...

2009-03-05T18:32:50.927+01:00

Given how adaptive mutual admiration behavior is: Why does constructive engagement exist at all?

And where it does exist, is it the result of a few gadflies who've inherited the 'constructive engagement gene' (the Socrateses of the world)? Or do we all have a capacity to strategically pursue constructive engagement?

Very good text. Please don't take it as a in-goup ...

2009-02-06T16:22:31.407+01:00

Very good text. Please don't take it as a in-goup loyalty demonstration.