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- Challenges evolutionary psychologists’ philosophical commitment to propositional-attitude (i.e. language of thought [LOT]) models of cognition
- Explores disagreements between Evolutionary Psychology and Evolutionary Developmental Systems Theory
- Explores cognition vs motivation related issues in explanation within Evolutionary Psychology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy (BRIEFSPHILOSOPH)
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Alex Walter
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evolutionary Psychology and the Propositional-attitudes
Book Subtitle: Two Mechanist Manifestos
Authors: Alex Walter
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2969-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The author(s) 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2968-1Published: 16 February 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2969-8Published: 14 February 2012
Series ISSN: 2211-4548
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 85
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology, Biological Psychology, Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Psychology