Is Durkheim the Enemy of Evolutionary Psychology? Export

@article{citeulike:2324033, abstract = {Evolutionary psychologists cite Durkheim's sociology as an exemplar of an approach that takes the human mind to be largely the product of social and cultural factors with negligible contributions from biology. The author argues that on the contrary, his sociological theory of the categories is compatible with the possibility of innate cognitive capacities, taking causal cognition as his example. Whether and to what extent there are such innate capacities is a question for research in the cognitive neurosciences. The extent to which these innate capacities can then be explained by natural selection remains an open question for empirical investigation. 10.1177/0048393102250281}, author = {Schmaus, Warren}, citeulike-article-id = {2324033}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0048393102250281}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/33/1/25}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/0048393102250281}, journal = {Philosophy of the Social Sciences}, keywords = {cultneurosci}, month = {March}, number = {1}, pages = {25--52}, posted-at = {2008-02-02 22:06:39}, priority = {2}, title = {Is Durkheim the Enemy of Evolutionary Psychology?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0048393102250281}, volume = {33}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2324033 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2324033 N2 - Evolutionary psychologists cite Durkheim's sociology as an exemplar of an approach that takes the human mind to be largely the product of social and cultural factors with negligible contributions from biology. The author argues that on the contrary, his sociological theory of the categories is compatible with the possibility of innate cognitive capacities, taking causal cognition as his example. Whether and to what extent there are such innate capacities is a question for research in the cognitive neurosciences. The extent to which these innate capacities can then be explained by natural selection remains an open question for empirical investigation. 10.1177/0048393102250281 IS - 1 JF - Philosophy of the Social Sciences EP - 52 TI - Is Durkheim the Enemy of Evolutionary Psychology? VL - 33 SP - 25 KW - cultneurosci AU - Schmaus, Warren PY - 2003/03/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0048393102250281 ER -