Browsing Department of Philosophy by Title
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Book Review of "Do We Really Understand Quantum Mechanics?"
(Notre Dame Philosophical Review, 2013-03) -
Book Review of "Everywhere and Everywhen, Adventures in Physics and Philosophy"
(Notre Dame Philosophical Review, 2011-01) -
Book Review of "Quantum Theory: A Philosopher's Overview"
(Taylor and Francis, 2011-01-06)Given its general motivation, “Quantum Theory: a Philosopher's Overview” by Salvator Cannavo is a very interesting book. The fundamental question is: Can quantum mechanics be an explanatory theory? In a nutshell, his answer ... -
Book Review of "The Kantian Legacy in the Nineteenth -Century Science"
(John Hopkins University Press, 2009-07) -
Book Review of "The Road to Maxwell's Demon: Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics"
(Taylor and Francis, 2013) -
Confirmation and the Computational Paradigm (or: Why Do You Think They Call It Artificial Intelligence?)
(Springer Verlag, 1993-05)The idea that human cognitive capacities are explainable by computational models is often conjoined with the idea that, while the states postulated by such models are in fact realized by brain states, there are no type-type ... -
DeFreuding Evolutionary Psychology: Adaptation and Human Motivation
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The Emperor Is Still Under-Dressed
(Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2005) -
Ethical Dilemmas in Retrospective Studies on Genital Surgery in the Treatment of Intersexual Infants
(Cambridge University Press, 2004)Intersexual infants and infants with other genital abnormalities often receive genital surgery for sex assignment or for normalizing purposes. The wisdom and beneficence of these practices have been questioned by intersexual ... -
Etiological Theories of Function: A Geographical Survey
(Biology and Philosophy, 1998-10)Formulations of the essential commitment of the etiological theory of functions have varied significantly, with some individual authors' formulations even varying from one place to another. The logical geography of these ... -
Evolutionary Psychology, Meet Developmental Neurobiology: Against Promiscuous Modularity
(Springer Verlag, 2000-12)Evolutionary psychologists claim that the mind contains “hundreds or thousands” of “genetically specified” modules, which are evolutionary adaptations for their cognitive functions. We argue that, while the adult human ... -
Evolutionary Psychology: A Critique
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Evolutionary psychology: the emperor’s new paradigm
(Elsevier, 2005-06)For some evolutionary psychology is merely a field of inquiry, but for others it is a robust paradigm involving specific theories about the nature and evolution of the human mind. Proponents of this paradigm claim to have ... -
Four Fallacies of Pop Evolutionary Psychology
(Scientific American, 2009-01)Some evolutionary psychologists have made widely popularized claims about how the human mind evolved, but other scholars argue that the grand claims lack solid evidence. -
Function and Design Revisited
(Oxford University Press, 2002)Several analyses of biological function — for example, those of Williams, Millikan, and Kitcher — identify an item’s function with what natural selection designed it to do. Allen and Bekoff have disagreed, claiming that ...
