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 My interests in human nature and particularly the nature of the human mind
have fueled my interest in psychology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of
psychology. My interests in anthropology, biology, and physicalism
have fueled my interest in evolution. And my interests in evolution
and in the nature of the human mind have led to an interest in human
sociobiology and human evolutionary psychology (EP). The pursuit of
these interests have culminated in the research that I am currently doing on
my dissertation, which is a critical survey of the most common and the most
substantial arguments against the evolutionary psychology research program.
My goal is to show that these arguments are either faulty or ineffectual and
that the EP program is (at least potentially) a viable one.
 | The Center for
Evolutionary Psychology
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Barbara, the CEP is directed by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby who are
two of the most prominent and prolific proponents of evolutionary
psychology. In addition to describing the Center's graduate
and post-doctoral programs, the site provides a great place to begin
learning about evolutionary psychology through articles and links to
papers, conferences, and other EP-related sites. |
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| The Human Behavior and Evolution
Society
| The website for the scholarly organization for
anthropologists, psychologists, and others interested in
adaptationist approaches to the study of human behavior. The
society's journal, Evolution and Human Behavior (formerly
Ethology and Sociobiology), is one of the primary journals in
this field. |
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The Evolutionary Psychology FAQ Page
| Written by Edward Hagen (formerly of the CEP at
UCSB), this FAQ addresses a number of the basic concepts underlying
EP as well as some standard criticisms of it. This is another
good place to start to learn more about evolutionary psychology. |
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3-D Pictorial
Evidence of Human Evolution
| Another site at UC Santa Barbara. This site
shows 3-D pictures of the skulls of various mammals, primates and
hominids that can be rotated for better comparison. Note: The
various skulls in the gallery take a while to download with a
dial-up connection and you need to have the free
Shockwave
plugin from Macromedia to view them. |
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'Evolutionary Psychology' on the Open Directory Project
| This is a collection of almost 500 links that
have been collected and edited by people (as opposed to a computer)
that are of relevance to those interested in evolutionary
psychology. |
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| 'Evolutionary Psychology' on
CogWeb
| Another collection of links to sites, pages and
papers about evolutionary psychology. This one is on UCLA's
CogWeb, which is designed as a tool for exploring cognitive cultural
studies. |
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| J. Aaron Daniel's Evolutionary
Psychology Reading List
| This is the reading list of books and articles
that I have put together for my own dissertation research on
evolutionary psychology and specifically on the arguments for and
against the legitimacy of the EP research program. |
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