Evolution and the Psychology of Thinking: The Debate Contributor(s): Over, David E. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415647657 ISBN-13: 9780415647656 Publisher: Psychology Press OUR PRICE: $63.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
Dewey: 155.7 |
Series: Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.80 lbs) 256 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The field of evolutionary cognitive psychology has stimulated considerable interest and debate among cognitive psychologists and those working in related areas. In this collection, leading experts evaluate the status of this new field, providing a critical analysis of its most controversial hypotheses. These hypotheses have far reaching implications for cognition, including a modular view of the mind, which rejects, in its extreme form, any general learning or reasoning abilities. Some evolutionary psychologists have also proposed content-dependent accounts of conditional reasoning and probability judgements, which in turn have significant, and equally controversial, implications about the nature of human reasoning and decision making. |