For centuries, religion offered answers about morality, gender, and social order. Today, evolutionary psychology often plays a similar role, claiming “scientific” insight into human nature — from male hierarchies to bonobo-style cooperation.
But how testable are these claims? Are they evidence, or just old prejudices in new language? As David Hume warned, we can’t simply move from statements about what is the case to conclusions about what ought to be. And Karl Popper reminded us that for a theory to be truly scientific, it must be falsifiable — open to being disproved by evidence.
This session will explore what it really means for a claim to be scientifically testable and whether evolutionary psychology genuinely illuminates human behaviour — or whether many of its explanations are closer to modern “Just So stories.”
Where: Downstairs room, Square Pig, Holborn (private room)
NB: The event begins at 7pm, doors open at 6:50pm
Format: 10-minute intro talk → vote on questions → small-group discussion → share insights with the whole room
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