Articles by Steve Taylor
How Natural Is War to Human Beings?
Steve Taylor PhD · If you look at the world today, and if you survey the human race’s recorded history, it’s easy to see our species as innately bloodthirsty and aggressive species. It seems as if warfare and brutality have been omnipresent, and are...
How Valid Is Evolutionary Psychology?
Steve Taylor, Ph.D. · How a Caricature of Human Nature Leads Evolutionary Psychology Astray
The Psychology of Religion: A Force For Good or Evil?
Steve Taylor Ph.D. · Is religion the source of conflict, or are deeper problems to blame? Militant atheists such as Richard Dawkins compare religion to a virus which infects human minds and turns potentially rational people into dogmatic automatons, willing...
Ecocide: The Psychology of Environmental Destruction
Steve Taylor Ph.D. · Recent scientific reports about climate change make grim reading. A paper published in The Economic Journal by the respected UK economist Lord Stern states that the models previously used to calculate the economic effects of climate...