Title | Eric M. Gander on Our Minds How Evolutionary Psychology is Reshaping the Nature Versus Nurture Debate 2003 |
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Tags | Psychology & Cognitive Science Cognitive Science Mind |
File Size | 923.5 KB |
Total Pages | 306 |
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ‘‘This Changes Everything’’ PART ONE The Evolution of a Controversy CHAPTER ONE Stephen Jay Gould Historicizes Science CHAPTER TWO Richard Herrnstein Stirs Up Controversy at Harvard Yard CHAPTER THREE Edward O. Wilson Brings More Controversy to the Yard CHAPTER FOUR Richard Lewontin and His Colleagues Demur PART TWO The Blind Watchmaker Meets the Scatterbrained Computer Programmer CHAPTER FIVE Nature’s ‘‘Very Special Way’’ CHAPTER SIX What Is the Mind? CHAPTER SEVEN The Challenges of Reverse Engineering PART THREE The Nature of Human Cultures CHAPTER EIGHT The Bene.ts of Hardwiring CHAPTER NINE What Cultures Can the Mind Run? CHAPTER TEN The Evolutionary Psychology of ‘‘Little House on the Prairie’’ CONCLUSION Brave New World Revisited—Again AFTERWORD Writing on The Blank Slate NOTES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX