Evolutionary psychology and embodied cognition

Here's Pinker's review of Lakoff's book Whose Freedom. And here's Lakoff's response. It highlights some key differences between Pinker's evolutionary psychology and Lakoff's embodied cognition via their dispute about political orientation. This tension between the paradigms is noted here as well: "Wheeler and Clark (p. 3565) highlight at the onset that there is an inherent tension between the understandings of cognition in embodied cognition and in evolutionary psychology." Here is the referenced paper in the last link by Wheeler and Clark describing this tension in detail, abstract below.

"Much recent work stresses the role of embodiment and action in thought and reason, and celebrates the power of transmitted cultural and environmental structures to transform the problem-solving activity required of individual brains. By apparent contrast, much work in evolutionary psychology has stressed the selective fit of the biological brain to an ancestral environment of evolutionary adaptedness, with an attendant stress upon the limitations and cognitive biases that result. On the face of it, this suggests either a tension, or at least a mismatch, with the symbiotic dyad of cultural evolution and embodied cognition. In what follows we explore this mismatch by focusing on three key ideas: cognitive niche construction, cognitive modularity, and the existence (or otherwise) of an evolved universal human nature. An appreciation of the power and scope of the first, combined with consequently more nuanced visions of the latter two, allow us to begin to glimpse a much richer vision of the combined interactive potency of biological and cultural evolution for active, embodied agents."