Armin Schulz |
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Representative Publications
(for a full and chronological listing, see my CV)
Books
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Structure, Evidence, and Heuristic: Evolutionary Biology, Economics, and the Philosophy of Their Relationship
New York, NY: Routledge, 2020
(For a review, see e.g. Arvid Agren's piece in Quarterly Review of Biology.) |
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Efficient Cognition: The Evolution of Representational Decision Making.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018
(For reviews, see e.g. Zoe Drayson's piece in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews and Justin Garson's piece in Biology and Philosophy.) |
Papers
A. On the Evolution of Representational Cognition
"Episodic Memory, Simulated Future Planning, and their Evolution.” (with Sarah Robins) Review of Philosophy and Psychology, forthcoming
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"Enhancing Thoughts: Culture, Technology, and the Evolution of Human Cognitive Uniqueness.” Mind & Language, 2020, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12320
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"The Ways of Altruism" (with Gualtiero Piccinini). Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2019, 5: 58-70
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"The Evolution of Psychological Altruism" (with Gualtiero Piccinini). Philosophy of Science, 2018, 85: 1054-1064
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"Altruism, Egoism, or Neither: A Cognitive-Efficiency-Based Evolutionary Biological Perspective on Helping Behavior." Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2016, 56: 15-23
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"The Benefits of Rule Following: A New Account of the Evolution of Desires." Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2013, 44: 595-603
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"The Adaptive Importance of Cognitive Efficiency: An Alternative Theory of Why We Have Beliefs and Desires." Biology and Philosophy, 2011, 26: 31-50
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"Simulation, Simplicity, and Selection: An Evolutionary Perspective on High-Level Mindreading." Philosophical Studies, 2011, 152: 27-285
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"Sober & Wilson's Evolutionary Arguments for Psychological Altruism: A Reassessment." Biology and Philosophy, 2011, 26: 251-260
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B. On Evolutionary Psychology
"Explaining Human Diversity: The Need to Balance Fit and Complexity." Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-021-00582-1
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"It Just Looks the Same: An Evolutionary Psychological Account of Differences in Racial Cognition Among Infants and Older Humans" (with Kamuran Osmanoglu). Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2019, 10: 631-647
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"The Evolution of Empathy." The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy (ed.,
H. Maibom), 2017, London: Routledge, pp. 64-73
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"Overextension: The Extended Mind and Arguments from Evolutionary Biology." European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2013, 3: 241-255.
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"Exaptation, Adaptation, and Evolutionary Psychology." History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2013, 35: 193-212
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"It Takes Two: Sexual Strategies and Game Theory." Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2010, 41: 41-49
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"Structural Flaws: Massive Modularity and the Argument from Design." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2008, 59: 733-745
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C. On Evolutionary Economics & Evolutionary Social Science
"Tools of the Trade: The Bio-Cultural Evolution of the Human Propensity to Trade.” Biology and Philosophy, 2022, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-022-09837-2.
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"What’s the Point? A Presentist Social Functionalist Account of Institutional Purpose." Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931211049765
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"Firms, Agency, and Evolution." Journal of Economic Methodology, 2016, 23: 57-76
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"Niche Construction, Adaptive Preferences, and the Differences between Fitness and Utility." Biology and Philosophy, 2014, 29: 315-335
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"Gigerenzer's Evolutionary Arguments against Rational Choice Theory: An Assessment."Philosophy of Science, 2011, 78: 1272-1282
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"Risky Business: Evolutionary Theory and Human Attitudes towards Risk - A Reply to Okasha." Journal of Philosophy, 2008, 105(3): 156-165
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D. On the Methodology of Economics
"Microfoundations and Methodology: A Complexity-Based Reconceptualization of the Debate” (with Nadia Ruiz). British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming
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"Preferences vs. Desires: Debating the Fundamental Structure of Conative States." Economics and Philosophy
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E. On Philosophy of Biology
"By Genes Alone: A Model Selectionist Argument for Genetical Explanations of Cooperation in Non-Human Organisms." Biology and Philosophy, 2018, 32: 951-967
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"Selection, Drift, and Independent Contrasts: Defending the Methodological Foundations of the FIC." Biological Theory, 2013, 7: 38-47
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F. Miscellaneous Others
"Idealizations and Partitions: A Defense of Robustness Analysis." (with Gareth Fuller) European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, doi: 10.1007/s13194-021-00428-8
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"Condorcet and Communitarianism: Boghossian's Fallacious Inference." Synthese, 2009, 166: 55-68
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