TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints328
UR  - http://cogprints.org/328/
A1  - Buller, David J.
Y1  - 1997/03//
N2  - 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.
KW  - individualism
KW  -  behavioral ecology
KW  -  function
KW  -  etiological theory
KW  -  proximate mechanisms
KW  -  selection
TI  - Individualism and Evolutionary Psychology (or: In Defense of 'Narrow' Functions)
SP  - 74
AV  - public
EP  - 95
ER  -

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