title: Individualism and Evolutionary Psychology (or: In Defense of 'Narrow' Functions)
creator: Buller, David J.
subject: Animal Behavior
subject: Ethology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Philosophy of Mind
subject: Philosophy of Science
subject: Psychobiology
description: Millikan and Wilson argue, for different reasons, that the essential reference to the environment in adaptationist explanations of behavior makes (psychological) individualism inconsistent with evolutionary psychology. I show that their arguments are based on misinterpretations of the role of reference to the environment in such explanations. By exploring these misinterpretations, I develop an account of explanation in evolutionary psychology that is fully consistent with individualism. This does not, however, constitute a full-fledged defense of individualism, since evolutionary psychology is only one explanatory paradigm among many in psychology.
date: 1997-03
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/328/1/indy%26ep.htm
identifier:   Buller, David J.  (1997) Individualism and Evolutionary Psychology (or: In Defense of 'Narrow' Functions).  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/328/