Evolutionary psychology controversy/Bibliography

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Additional Resources for Criticisms

Books

• Fodor, J. (2000) The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology

• Gould, S.J. (2002) The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

• Joseph, J. (2004). The Gene Illusion: Genetic Research in Psychiatry and Psychology Under the Microscope. New York: Algora. (2003 United Kingdom Edition by PCCS Books)

• Joseph, J. (2006). The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes. New York: Algora.

• Kohn, A. (1990) The Brighter Side of Human Nature: Altruism and Empathy in Everyday Life

• Lewontin, R.C., Rose, S. & Kamin, L. (1984) Biology, Ideology and Human Nature: Not In Our Genes

• Rose, H. and Rose, S. (2000) Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology

• Sahlins, M. (1976) The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology

Online resources

• Paul Ehrlich challenges Evolutionary Psychology

• Stephen Jay Gould, "Darwinian Fundamentalism", New York Review of Books June 12th 1997

• Smith, E.A., Borgerhoff Mulder, M. and K. Hill (2001). Controversies in the evolutionary social sciences: A guide to the perplexed. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16(3):128-135. Full text

• Smith, E.A., Borgerhoff Mulder, M. & Hill, K. (2000). Evolutionary analyses of human behaviour: a commentary on Daly & Wilson. Animal Behaviour, 60, F21-F26. Full text

• Wilson, D.S., Dietrich, E., et al. (2003). On the inappropriate use of the naturalistic fallacy in evolutionary psychology. Biology and Philosophy, 18, 669-682. Full text

Additional Resources for Rebuttals

Books

• Alcock, John (2001). The Triumph of Sociobiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Barkow, Jerome (Ed.). (2006) Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Buss, David, ed. (2005) The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. ISBN 0-471-26403-2.

• Degler, C. N. (1991). In search of human nature: The decline and revival of Darwinism in American social thought. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Pinker, S. (2002). The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. New York: Viking.

• Richards, Janet Radcliffe (2000). Human Nature After Darwin: A Philosophical Introduction. London: Routledge.

• Segerstrale, Ullica (2000). Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Online articles

• Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2005). Conceptual foundations of evolutionary psychology. In D. M. Buss (Ed.), The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (pp. 5-67). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Full text

• Controversies surrounding evolutionary psychology by Edward H. Hagen, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Berlin. In D. M. Buss (Ed.), The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (pp. 5-67). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

• Why do some people hate evolutionary psychology?

by Edward H. Hagen, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Berlin. (Also see his Evolutionary Psychology FAQ which responds to criticisms of EP.)

• Geher, G. (2006). Evolutionary psychology is not evil! … and here’s why … Psihologijske Teme (Psychological Topics); Special Issue on Evolutionary Psychology, 15, 181-202. [1]