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Atran's evolutionary psychology: “Say it ain't just-so, Joe”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

James Maffie
James Maffie
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1781 maffiej@spot.colorado.edu
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Abstract

Atran advances three theses: our folk-biological taxonomy is (1) universal, (2) innate, and (3) the product of natural selection. I argue that Atran offers insufficient support for theses (2) and (3) and that his evolutionary psychology thus amounts to nothing more than a just-so story.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , August 1998 , pp. 583 - 584
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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