Evolution and the Psychology of Thinking: The Debate

ISBN-13: 9780415647656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str.

David E. Over

Opis

In this collection, leading experts evaluate the status of evolutionary cognitive psychology and provide a critical analysis of its main hypotheses. These hypotheses have far reaching implications for cognition.

Recenzje

The book is a timely addition to the literature. To see such a range of arguments in one place is stimulating and valuable; the reference sections themselves are a goldmine for students. - Ken Manktelow, University of Wolverhampton

This book is the best cross-examination of ^DEL evidence that we currently have, and it gives plenty of food for thought.
- Daniel Nettle, The Open University

A fine volume and well organised debate, the contributed chapters are all of very high quality and are written by well respected cognitive scientists. - Denise Cummins, University of California, Davis, USA

Spis treści

D.E. Over, Introduction: The Evolutionary Psychology of Thinking. G.L. Brase, The Allocation System: Using Signal Detection Processes to Regulate Representations in a Multi-modular Mind. L. Fiddick, Is There a Faculty of Deontic Reasoning? A Critical Reevalution of Abstract Versions of the Wason Selection Task. A.P. Atkinson, M. Wheeler, Evolutionary Psychology's Grain Problem and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Reasoning. A. Almor, Specialised Behaviour without Specialised Modules. D.E. Over, From Massive Modularity to Metarepresentation: The Evolution of Higher Cognition. S. Sloman, D.E. Over, Probability Judgment: From the Inside and Out. K.E. Stanovich, R.F. West, Evolutionary versus Instrumental Goals: How Evolutionary Psychology Misconceives Human Rationality.

O autorze

David E. Over