07/25/18 Evolution and the mind | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists

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42 items

Week 1 - Minds as the product of evolution (3 items)

Animal Action in the Space of Reasons - Susan Hurley, 2003-06
Article | Optional

Putting Thoughts to Work: Concepts, Systematicity, and Stimulus-Independence - Elisabeth

Camp, 2009-03
Article | Optional

Of Sensory Systems and the "Aboutness" of Mental States - Kathleen Akins, 1996-07
Article | Essential | For your first assignment

Week 2 - Nativism, empiricism and the study of human cognition (3

items)

Innateness in cognitive science - Richard Samuels

Article | Essential

Furnishing the mind: concepts and their perceptual basis - Jesse J. Prinz, 2002
Book | Recommended | Especially chapter 5 is worth a read

Nativism, Empiricism, and the Origins of Knowledge - Spelke Elizabeth S.

Article | Essential | Available on Moodle via link

Week 3 - Evolutionary psychology and its critics (2 items)

Four Fallacies of Pop Evolutionary Psychology - Scientific American - David J. Buller
Webpage | Recommended

Are Evolutionary Explanations Unfalsifiable? Evolutionary Psychology and the Lakatosian

Philosophy of Science - Timothy Ketelaar and Bruce J. Ellis, 2000
Article | Recommended

Week 4 - The modularity of the mind (3 items)

Evolutionary Psychology Versus Fodor: Arguments For and Against the Massive Modularity
Hypothesis - Willem E. Frankenhuis, Annemie Ploeger, 2007-12
Article | Essential

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Modularity in Cognition: Framing the Debate. - H. Clark Barrett, Robert Kurzban, 2006
Article | Recommended

Origins of domain specificity: The evolution of functional organization - Leda Cosmides,

John Tooby, 1994
Article | Recommended

Week 5 - Cultural evolution (4 items)

Towards a unified science of cultural evolution - Alex Mesoudi, Andrew Whiten, Kevin N.
Laland, 2006-8
Article | Essential

Rethinking adaptation: The niche-construction perspective - Day, Rachel ; Laland, Kevin ;

Odling-Smee, John
Article | Recommended

Explaining culture: a naturalistic approach - Dan Sperber, 1996

Book | Recommended | Especially chapters 4 and 5

The evolution of the Teddy Bear - Robert A Hinde, L A Barden

Article | Essential | You need to read this one prior to coming to class, as it's part of an
exercise

Week 6 - Beauty and the arts (3 items)

Artistic creativity and the brain - Semir Zeki

Article | Recommended

Perceptual Aesthetics: Transcendent Emotion, Neurological Image - Ann Marie Barry,

2006-09
Article | Recommended

The artist as neuroscientist - Patrick Cavanagh, 2005-3-17

Article | Essential

Week 7 - Trip to Pitt Rivers Museum (2 items)

The cognitive foundations of cultural stability and diversity - Dan Sperber, Lawrence A.
Hirschfeld, 2004-01
Article | Essential

Toward an Integrative Approach of Cognitive Neuroscientific and Evolutionary

Psychological Studies of Art - Johan De Smedt, Helen De Cruz, 2010-10
Article | Recommended

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Week 8 - Literary Darwinism (3 items)

Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Aesthetics, Fiction
and the Arts - John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, 2001
Article | Essential

Jane Austen, game theorist - Michael Suk-Young Chwe, 2013

Book | Essential | Chapter 6 only

Literary Darwinism: evolution, human nature, and literature - Joseph Carroll, 2004
Book | Recommended | Interesting book on the topic. Worth a skim

Week 9 - The evolution of religious beliefs and practices (2 items)

Cognitive Science of Religion: Looking Back, Looking Forward - Justin L. Barrett, 2011-06
Article | Essential

Are Children "Intuitive Theists"? Reasoning about Purpose and Design in Nature - Kelemen,
Deborah
Article | Essential

Week 10 - The cognitive basis of mathematics (4 items)

Mathematical symbols as epistemic actions - Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt, 2013
Article

The Innateness Hypothesis and Mathematical Concepts - Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt,
2010-4
Article | Please note the library does not subscribe to this journal

Morality and Mathematics: The Evolutionary Challenge - Justin Clarke-Doane, 2012-01

Article | Optional

Numerical cognition and mathematical realism - Helen De Cruz

Article | Recommended

Essay topic 1: Does culture evolve in an analogous way to biological

evolution? (5 items)
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution - Alex Mesoudi, Andrew Whiten, Kevin N.
Laland, 2006-8
Article | Essential

Cultural evolutionary theory: How culture evolves and why it matters - Nicole Creanza,
Oren Kolodny, Marcus W. Feldman, 2017-07-25
Article | Recommended

How Darwinian is cultural evolution? - N. Claidiere, T. C. Scott-Phillips, D. Sperber,

2014-03-31

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Article | Essential

If we are all cultural Darwinians what’s the fuss about? Clarifying recent disagreements in
the field of cultural evolution - Alberto Acerbi, Alex Mesoudi, 2015-7
Article | Optional

Five Misunderstandings About Cultural Evolution - Henrich, JosephBoyd, RobertRicherson,

Peter J, Jun 2008
Article | Recommended

Essay topic 2: Does the cognitive science of religion cast doubt on

religious beliefs? (4 items)

Chapter 3 (John Teehan) of Advances in religion, cognitive science, and experimental

philosophy - 2016
Chapter | Essential

Does cognitive science show belief in god to be irrational? The epistemic consequences of
the cognitive science of religion - Joshua C. Thurow, 2013-8
Article

Evolutionary Debunking Arguments in Three Domains: Fact, Value, and Religion - Wilkins
John, Griffiths Paul
Chapter

Reidian Religious Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion - K. J. Clark, J. L.

Barrett, 2011-09-01
Article | Essential

Essay topic 3: Should evolutionary considerations lead us to expect

that the mind is massively modular? (4 items)
Fodor on Cognition, Modularity, and Adaptationism - Samir Okasha, 2003-01
Article | Essential

Evolutionary Psychology Versus Fodor: Arguments For and Against the Massive Modularity
Hypothesis - Willem E. Frankenhuis, Annemie Ploeger, 2007-12
Article | Essential

Chapter 6 of Explaining culture: a naturalistic approach - Dan Sperber, 1996

Book

Enzymatic Computation and Cognitive Modularity - H. Clark Barrett, 2005-06

Article

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