Where biology meets psychology
Subtitle: philosophical essays
By: edited by Valerie Gray Hardcastle.
Contributors: Hardcastle, Valerie Gray.; NetLibrary, Inc.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Psychobiology -- Philosophy; Evolutionary psychology; Teleology; Philosophy of mind
Notes: "A Bradford Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online version via NetLibrary available by license agreement to WWU Library users.
Table of contents: title: Fitness and the fate of unicorns / Karen Neander; title: Understanding functions: a pragmatic approach / Valerie Gray Hardcastle; title: Evolutionary psychology: ultimate explanations and Panglossian predictions / Todd Grantham, Shaun Nichols; title: The conflict of evolutionary psychology / Paul Sheldon Davies; title: Presence of mind / Lawrence A. Shapiro; title: DeFreuding evolutionary psychology: adaptation and human motivation / David J. Buller; title: Innateness is canalization: in defense of a developmental account of innateness / Andrʹe Ariew; title: Generativity, entrenchment, evolution, and innateness: philosophy, evolutionary biology, and conceptual foundations of science / William C. Wimsatt; title: Feelings as the proximate cause of behavior / Daniel W. McShea; title: Situated agency and the descent of desire / Kim Sterelny; title: Natural answers to natural questions / Thomas Polger, Owen Flanagan; title: Mental functions as constraints on neurophysiology: biology and psychology of vision / Gary Hatfield; title: Ontogeny, phylogeny, and scientific development / Stephen M. Downes; title: Supple laws in psychology and biology / Mark A. Bedau; title: Genes and codes: lessons from the philosophy of mind? / Peter Godfrey-Smith; title: Understanding biological causation / Charbel Niño El-Hani, Antonio Marcos Pereira; title: The individual in biology and psychology / Robert A. Wilson.