Evolution and the Psychology of Thinking: The Debate (Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning)

ISBN 10: 1841692859 / ISBN 13: 9781841692852

Published by Psychology Press, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evolution and the Psychology of Thinking: The Debate (Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning)
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841692859
• ISBN 13: 9781841692852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 521.6 grams

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Synopsis

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 mind, which rejects, in its extreme form, any general learning or reasoning abilities. Some evolutionary psychologists have also proposed content-dependent accounts of conditional reasoning and probability judgements, which in turn have significant, and equally controversial, implications about the nature of human reasoning and decision making. The contributions range from those that are highly critical of the hypotheses to those that support and develop them. The result is a uniquely balanced, cutting-edge evaluation of the field that will be of interest to psychologists, philosophers and those in related subjects who wish to find out what evolutionary considerations can, and cannot, tell us about the human mind.

About the Author

David E. Over