From mating to mentality : evaluating evolutionary psychology / edited by Kim Sterelny and Julie Fitness.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sterelny, Kim.

Fitness, Julie.

Series:

Macquarie monographs in cognitive science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolutionary psychology--Congresses.

Evolutionary psychology.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Psychology Press, [2003]

Summary:

Evolutionary psychology, a relatively new approach to understanding the origins and workings of the human mind, is currently attracting passionate interest and debate within both academia and the wider lay community. In July 2001 the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science sponsored an interdisciplinary workshop on evolutionary psychology in conjunction with the Philosophy Program at the Australian National University. The aim of the workshop was to bring together a multidisciplinary group of scholars with interests in different aspects of evolutionary psychology for critical discussion and debate. An outstanding cast of theorists and researchers from a diversity of psychological, philosophical, anthropological and biological backgrounds participated in the conference, and this volume contains some of the most intriguing and important papers to emerge from it. Covering a range of topics, from the evolution of language, theory of mind, and the mentality of apes, through to psychological disorders, human mating strategies and relationship processes, this volume makes a timely and significant contribution to what is fast becoming one of the most prominent and fruitful approaches to understanding the nature and psychology of the human mind.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Evolution of Evolutionary Psychology / Kim Sterelny, Julie Fitness 1

2 Evolutionary Cognitive Science: Adding What and Why to How the Mind Works / Douglas T. Kenrick, D. Vaughn Becker, Jonathan Butner, Norman P. Li, Jon K. Maner 13

3 Strategic Pluralism and Context-Specific Mate Preferences in Humans / Jeffry A. Simpson, Minda Orina 39

4 The Intimate Relationship Mind / Garth J. O. Fletcher, Megan Stenswick 71

5 Evolving to Be Mentalists: The "Mind-Reading Mums" Hypothesis / Raewyn Brockway 95

6 Uncertainty, Contingency, and Attachment: A Life History Theory of Theory of Mind / James S. Chisholm 125

7 Recursion as the Key to the Human Mind / Michael C. Corballis 155

8 Reinterpreting the Mentality of Apes / Thomas Suddendorf, Andrew Whiten 173

9 Does the Selection Task Detect Cheater-Detection? / Dan Sperber, Vittorio Girotto 197

10 Clinical Psychology and Evolutionary Psychology: Strange Bedfellows? / Richard Siegert 227

11 Evolutionary Psychology and the Challenge of Adaptive Explanation / Russell D. Gray, Megan Heaney, Scott Fairhall 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1841690961

OCLC:

52001827