Where biology meets psychology [electronic resource] : philosophical essays / edited by Valerie Gray Hardcastle.
A great deal of interest and excitement surround the interface between the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of psychology, yet the area is neither well defined nor well represented in mainstream philosophical publications. This book is perhaps the first to open a dialogue between the two dis...
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Table of Contents:
- Fitness and the fate of unicorns / Karen Neander
- Understanding functions: a pragmatic approach / Valerie Gray Hardcastle
- Evolutionary psychology: ultimate explanations and Panglossian predictions / Todd Grantham, Shaun Nichols
- The conflict of evolutionary psychology / Paul Sheldon Davies
- Presence of mind / Lawrence A. Shapiro
- DeFreuding evolutionary psychology: adaptation and human motivation / David J. Buller
- Innateness is canalization: in defense of a developmental account of innateness / Andrʹe Ariew
- Generativity, entrenchment, evolution, and innateness: philosophy, evolutionary biology, and conceptual foundations of science / William C. Wimsatt
- Feelings as the proximate cause of behavior / Daniel W. McShea
- Situated agency and the descent of desire / Kim Sterelny
- Natural answers to natural questions / Thomas Polger, Owen Flanagan
- Mental functions as constraints on neurophysiology: biology and psychology of vision / Gary Hatfield
- Ontogeny, phylogeny, and scientific development / Stephen M. Downes
- Supple laws in psychology and biology / Mark A. Bedau
- Genes and codes: lessons from the philosophy of mind? / Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Understanding biological causation / Charbel Niño El-Hani, Antonio Marcos Pereira
- The individual in biology and psychology / Robert A. Wilson.