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  title info:
    title: Evolutionary Psychology and the Propositional-attitudes
    sub title: Two Mechanist Manifestos
  name:
    name part: Walter, Alex.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 85 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: The two essays provide a critical examination of theory and research in the field of evolutionary psychology. The view advanced here is that philosophical materialism and minimalist assumptions about adaptation serve Darwinian psychology better than the more popular alternative view that relies on cognitive dualism and propositional-attitude psychology to formulate evolutionary psychology theory. A commitment to cognitive dualism is destined to undermine the physical basis of behavior upon which evolutionary theory depends. Many evolutionary psychologists do not see this but are seduced by the easy way in which hypotheses can be formulated using the ‘propositional-attitude’ model. The challenge is to develop a materialistic and mechanistic approach to understanding human cognition and behavior, including linguistic and social behavior.
  note: by Alex Walter.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of mind
  subject:
    topic: Biology
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Behavioral sciences
  subject:
    topic: Biological psychology
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive psychology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Mind
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Biology
  subject:
    topic: Biological Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Behavioral Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive Psychology
  classification: B53
  classification: 128.2
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
  identifier: 9789400729698
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2969-8
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    record creation date: 120214
    record change date: 20151204142156.0
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