Psychology
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- Darwinism is Social
- This essay appeared on David Kohn, ed., 'The Darwinian Heritage'. Princeton and Nova Pacifica, 1985, pp. 609-638.
- 962
- Evolution, Biology and Psychology from a Marxist Point of View
- This article is largely historical, but the issues remain timely.
- 964
- Evolutionary Biology and Ideology: Then and Now
- A paper contributed to a conference on 'The Social Impact of Modern Biology'. It appeared in Science Studies 1: 177-296, 1971.
- 967
- Herbert Spencer and Inevitable Progress
- Spencer is so grandiose that it is hard to summarize his ideas, yet he was one of the most influential thinkers in nineteenth-century Britain, and his ideas were an inspiration around the world. His version of evolution was utterly generalised in all the ways Darwin tried to be circumspect. The organic analogies which Spencer developed are the foundation-stones for the widespread idea of functionalism across the biomedical and human sciences, extending to architecture, systems theory, cybernetics and information theory. The essay was reprinted in a collection from the journal: G. Marsden, ed., Victorian Values. Longman, 1990.
- 968
- In Favor of Animal Consciousness
- An excerpt from Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness by Donald R. Griffin, the creator of the field of cognitive ethology.
- 969
- Malthus on Man - In Animals no Moral Restraint
- A paper was presented to a conference on 'Malthus, Medicine and Science' organised by Roy Porter at the Wellcome Institute, London, on 20 March 1998.
- 971
- Memory Experts Show Sleeping Rats May Have Visual Dreams
- Matthew Wilson contends that animals have complex dreams.
- 972
- NYTimes.com: Exuberance is Rational
- Richard Thaler has led a revolution in the study of economics by understanding the strange ways people behave with their money.
- 973
- Scholarship and the History of the Behavioural Sciences
- A paper that first appeared in History of Science 2: 1-51, 1966.
- 974
- Social Power and Self Deception
- Social evolution and social influence: selfishness, deception, self-deception. A scholarly paper by Mario F. Heilmann, University of California at Los Angeles.
- 975
- Sociobiology Sanitized: The Evolutionary Psychology and Genic Selectionism Debates
- Socio-political overview of the circumstances leading to the development of Evolutionary Psychology as distinct from Sociobiology, by Val Dusek. This web page is associated with the Science-as-Culture mailing list and journal.
- 976
- Sport and genetics
- Stephen Jay Gould and Kipchoge Keino on why athletic achievement isn't in the genes.
- 978
- The Development of Herbert Spencer's Concept of Evolution
- A paper delivered to the Eleventh International Congress of the History of Science, Warsaw, August 1965 and published in Actes du Xle Congres International d'Histoire des Sciences Warsaw: Ossolineum, 1967, vol. 2, pp. 273-78.