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Reasoning Across Domains: An Essay in Evolutionary Psychology

by Harry Witzthum
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783039109784
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
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  • Pages: 282
  • Original Price: GBP 82.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 341 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

Evolutionary psychology's ultimate goal is to understand the design of the human mind. It is a new approach in psychology, founded upon evolutionary theory and cognitive science. Evolutionary psychologists' insistence on evolutionary theory has given rise to both controversy and transformations in theoretical models of human cognition. It is still a minority position in the field of psychology, but evolutionary psychology's implications are far reaching.
This book examines the arguments put forth by evolutionary psychologists and the objections levelled against them by their critics. Can evolutionary psychology offer a promising strategy in psychology that should be taken seriously and which can be defended against its critics? That is one question this book investigates. But the book also proposes a new approach to tackle the evolution of general-purpose cognitive mechanisms, which is the main matter of dispute between traditional and evolutionary psychology. Is a credible evolutionary account of the development of general-purpose cognitive mechanisms possible? Evolutionary psychologists have scarcely addressed this question in their current research, this book proposes a new way of thinking about the question.

The Author: Harry Witzthum (1969) studied philosophy and history at the University of Basel (CH) and Sheffield (UK). With this study he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Sheffield in the year 2004.

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