?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Response+to+Buller&rft.creator=Hagen%2C+Edward+H.&rft.subject=Behavioral+Biology&rft.subject=Evolution&rft.subject=Theoretical+Biology&rft.subject=Evolutionary+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=Buller+recently+posted+a+critique+of+evolutionary+psychology+(reproduced+below).+Although+I+disagree+with+many+of+his+assertions%2C+this+is+the+most+credible+attempt+to+critique+evolutionary+psychology+that+I+have+encountered.+Buller%C2%92s+arguments+regarding+improper+motivational+inferences+from+evolutionary+psychological+explanations+are+largely+correct--such+inferences+are+indeed+erroneous.+Furthermore%2C+the+mistakes+he+identifies+have+been+made+by+some+prominent+evolutionists+including%2C+apparently%2C+W.+D.+Hamilton+(Symons%2C+personal+communication).+However%2C+most+evolutionary+psychologists+are+not+saying+what+he+claims+they+are+saying.+Buller+wishes+to+find+evolutionary+psychology+trapped+in+Freudian+quicksand+so+that+he+can+rescue+it.+Instead%2C+it+is+he+who+must+hoist+himself+from+the+bog+using+the+theoretical+rigging+created+by+evolutionary+psychologists+over+the+last+two+decades%2C+including%2C+most+prominently%2C+Don+Symons%2C+a+primary+target+of+his+essay.&rft.date=1998-11&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F785%2F1%2Fbuller.html&rft.identifier=++Hagen%2C+Edward+H.++(1998)+Response+to+Buller.++%5BPreprint%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F785%2F