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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. -
Natural Teleology
(State University of New York Press, 1999) -
The Emperor Is Still Under-Dressed
(Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2005) -
Speculation Disguised as Results
(Ethology, 2008) -
The New Paradox of Temporal Transience
(Philosophical Quarterly, 1992) -
On the 'Standard' Argument for Fatalism
(Philosophical Papers, 1995) -
DeFreuding Evolutionary Psychology: Adaptation and Human Motivation
(MIT Press, 1999) -
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 ... -
Get Over: Massive Modularity
(Biology and Philosophy, 2005-09) -
Evolutionary Psychology: A Critique
(MIT Press, 2006) -
Varieties of Evolutionary Psychology
(Cambridge University Press, 2007) -
Review of Chase Wrenn's Truth
(Teaching Philosophy, 2016) -
Individualism and Evolutionary Psychology (or: In Defense of 'Narrow' Functions)
(Philosophy of Science, 1997)Millikan (1993) and Wilson (1994) argue, for different reasons, that the essential reference to the environment in adaptationist explanations of behavior makes (psychological) individualism inconsistent with evolutionary ... -
Male Sexual Jealousy: Lost Paternity Opportunities?
(Psychological Reports, 2019)Numerous studies have shown that men experience relatively greater levels of jealousy in response to the sexual aspects of an infidelity (relative to women), whereas women experience relatively greater levels of jealousy ... -
On the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics
(Vuibert, 2013-02)