Is Durkheim the enemy of evolutionary psychology?
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Evolutionary psychologists regard DurkheimEs sociology as an exemplar of an approach that takes the human mind to be a product of social and cultural factors with negligible contributions from biology. It is argued that the sociological theory of the categories is compatible with the possibility of innate cognitive capacities.
Publication Name: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-3931
Year: 2003
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G.A Cohen's functional explanation: a critical realist analysis
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An examination of the functional explanation that G.A Cohen employs in his book Karl MarxEs Theory of History is carried out. The Bhaskarian Critique is employed by demonstrating that functionalism is unworkable because it is dependent on an empiricist account of causation.
Publication Name: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-3931
Year: 2003
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Evolution of human jealousy: a just-so or a just-so criticism?
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Some requirements are proposed to operationalize the methodological assessment of evolutionary psychology. It is argued that the hypothesis about evolutionary sex differences in human jealousy satisfies all the proposed requirements.
Publication Name: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-3931
Year: 2003
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