Stephen M. Downes
Teaching:
Spring 2009
PHIL 1000: Introduction to Philosophy: General Survey
(Web page available through WebCt)
Cognitive Science Minor Information
Recent Publications:
Papers:
- "Evolutionary Psychology, Adaptation and Design," (in French) in Lecointre, G. et al. (Eds.) 2009. L'évolutionnisme aujourd'hui. Paris: Editions Syllepse (Forthcoming)
- “Models, Pictures and Unified Accounts of Representation: Lessons from aesthetics for philosophy of science,” Perspectives on Science (Forthcoming).
- “The Basic Components of the Human Mind Were Not Solidified During the Pleistocene Epoch” in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology, R. Arp and F. Ayala (Eds.), Blackwell (Forthcoming).
- “Evolutionary Psychology” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2008/entries/evolutionary-psychology/>.
- “Evolutionary Psychology” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, W.A Darity (Ed.). Detroit, Macmillan Reference: Vol. 9: 33-34 (2008).
Reviews:
- “Moving past the levels of selection debates. Review of Samir Okasha Evolution and the levels of selection. Biology and Philosophy (Forthcoming).
- “Life after Evolutionary Psychology. Review of David Buller Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature.” Metascience Vol. 16, No. 1: 1-6 (2007).
- "From philosophy of
biology to social philosophy: Review of Philip Kitcher, In
Mendels’ Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology." Biology
and Philosophy 21:
299-307 (2006).
- “Pluralistic
biology of human behavior: A review of K. Laland and J. Brown, Sense
and Nonsense.” Metascience 14: 269-271 (2005).
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