Rethinking Evolutionary Psychology
Rethinking Evolutionary Psychology identifies, champions and vindicates a streamlined evolutionary psychology. It offers a new way of thinking that moves decisively away from theoretical and critical excess. Where standard accounts often obscure and distort, this book emphasizes and develops evolutionary psychology's heuristic credentials.
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- Full title :Rethinking Evolutionary Psychology / by A. Goldfinch.
Summary
Rethinking Evolutionary Psychology identifies, champions and vindicates a streamlined evolutionary psychology. It offers a new way of thinking that moves decisively away from theoretical and critical excess. Where standard accounts often obscure and distort, this book emphasizes and develops evolutionary psychology's heuristic credentials.
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- Publication Date:2015.
- Edition:1st ed. 2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Imprint, Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (227 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1349495220, 9781349495221, 1137442913, 9781137442918
- DOI:10.1057/9781137442918
- oclc:on1237466303
- LC Classification:B67
- Dewey Decimal:155.7
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Evolutionary Psychology as a Paradigm; 1.0 Introduction; 1.1 Natural Selection and Adaptation; 1.2 The Possibility of Psychological Adaptations; 1.3 Empirical Adaptationism; 1.4 Inference from Empirical Adaptationism to Massive Modularity; 1.5 Methodological Adaptationism; 1.6 Metatheory for Psychology; 1.7 Public Policy Agenda; 1.8 Conclusion; 2 Subverting the Paradigm; 2.0 Introduction; 2.1 Levels of Selection; 2.2 Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness; 2.3 Behavioural Flexibility; 2.4 Developmental Complexity and Robustness
2.5 Psychological Adaptations as Modules2.6 The Failure to Infer Massive Modularity from Empirical Adaptationism; 2.7 Methodological Objections; 2.8 Metatheory or Marketing?; 2.9 Policy and Popularisation Dangers; 2.10 Conclusion; 3 Evolutionary Psychology and Novel Predictions; 3.0 Introduction; 3.1 Heuristics in Science; 3.2 Heuristics in Evolutionary Psychology; 3.3 The Two Research Strategies in Tandem; 3.4 Heuristics for Identifying Adaptive Problems; 3.5 Heuristics for Identifying Adaptive Solutions; 3.6 Testing Predictions; 3.7 Methodological Challenges Revisited; 3.8 Conclusion
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