(Ebook) Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology 1st Edition by Robert C Richardson ISBN 0262182602 9780262182607

(Ebook) Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology 1st Edition by Robert C Richardson ISBN 0262182602 9780262182607

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ISBN 10: 0262182602 
ISBN 13: 9780262182607
Author: Robert C Richardson

A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology's explanations amount to speculation disguised as results. Human beings, like other organisms, are the products of evolution. Like other organisms, we exhibit traits that are the product of natural selection. Our psychological capacities are evolved traits as much as are our gait and posture. This much few would dispute. Evolutionary psychology goes further than this, claiming that our psychological traits—including a wide variety of traits, from mate preference and jealousy to language and reason—can be understood as specific adaptations to ancestral Pleistocene conditions. In Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology, Robert Richardson takes a critical look at evolutionary psychology by subjecting its ambitious and controversial claims to the same sorts of methodological and evidential constraints that are broadly accepted within evolutionary biology. The claims of evolutionary psychology may pass muster as psychology; but what are their evolutionary credentials? Richardson considers three ways adaptive hypotheses can be evaluated, using examples from the biological literature to illustrate what sorts of evidence and methodology would be necessary to establish specific evolutionary and adaptive explanations of human psychological traits. He shows that existing explanations within evolutionary psychology fall woefully short of accepted biological standards. The theories offered by evolutionary psychologists may identify traits that are, or were, beneficial to humans. But gauged by biological standards, there is inadequate evidence: evolutionary psychologists are largely silent on the evolutionary evidence relevant to assessing their claims, including such matters as variation in ancestral populations, heritability, and the advantage offered to our ancestors. As evolutionary claims they are unsubstantiated. Evolutionary psychology, Richardson concludes, may offer a program of research, but it lacks the kind of evidence that is generally expected within evolutionary biology. It is speculation rather than sound science—and we should treat its claims with skepticism.

(Ebook) Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology 1st Table of contents:

Introduction: Man’s Place in Nature
1 Darwin and the Descent of Man
2 The Evolution of Human Values
3 Huxley’s Attack on Evolutionary Ethics
4 Evolutionary Naturalism
1 The Ambitions of Evolutionary Psychology
1 Darwin’s Gift
2 Darwinian Algorithms
3 Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology
4 Sociobiology and Its Critics
5 Setting the Standard for Evolutionary Psychology
2 Reverse Engineering and Adaptation
1 The Appeal of Reverse Engineering
2 The Case of Archaeopteryx
3 The “Spandrels” and Adaptationism
4 The “Dangerous Passion”
5 Varieties of Design
6 Epicycles and Explanations in Evolutionary Psychology
7 True Causes
3 The Dynamics of Adaptation
1 Human Language and Cognition as Adaptations
2 Adaptation and Adaptationism
3 Regressive Evolution and Natural Selection
4 Natural Language and Natural Selection
5 Human Reasoning and Natural Selection
6 Thinking of Matter
4 Recovering Evolutionary History
1 Mental Organs and Human Reasoning
2 Adaptation and Evolutionary History
3 The Comparative Method
4 Phylogeny and Adaptation in Human Evolution
5 The Problem with Homo sapiens
5 Idle Darwinizing
1 Explaining Descent
2 The Rhetoric of Exclusion
3 The Prospects for an Evolutionary Psychology

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