1st Edition
Evolution and the Psychology of Thinking The Debate
Edited By David E. Over
Copyright 2003
256 Pages
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Psychology Press
256 Pages
by
Psychology Press
256 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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The field of evolutionary cognitive psychology has stimulated considerable interest and debate among cognitive psychologists and those working in related areas. In this collection, leading experts evaluate the status of this new field, providing a critical analysis of its most controversial hypotheses. These hypotheses have far reaching implications for cognition, including a modular view of the... Read more
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.
Biography
David E. Over
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
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
