Anyone attempting to articulate a developing position is likely to feel immobilized from time
to time by the very conceptual and historical baggage that makes" good words" good-by the …

The aim of this chapter is to discuss the question of how dynamic systems theory can be
fruitfully applied to the development of the kind of phenomena and variables that have …

The growth of developmental psychology has been accompanied by an increasing
uneasiness. This discomfort is centered on the limitations of most current conceptual …

What kind of theory is DST? Is it a scientific theory or a philosophical theory? Is it an
empirical hypothesis, a suggested program of research, a philosophical gloss on our …

It is a matter of common agreement among scientists that not many ideas are new. Physicists
find new particles, evolutionary biologists and geneticists move toward new models of …

The paper sketches the historical background of the organismic-developmental approach
and seeks to explicate the fundamental notions characterizing that approach. The approach …

This book has been long in the making. It began in 2008 with a workshop on the
'developmental state', hosted by the Cooperative and Policy Alternative Center (COPAC) in …

The conference out of which this book grew was dedicated to Esther Thelen. Three themes
that permeated Esther Thelen's work are central also to Dynamical Systems thinking …

The innate-acquired distinction has long been a point of connection between evolutionary
questions and developmental questions. It is also one of our oldest conceptual tools, dating …

220 William C. Wimsatt ethology and social psychology) to force a productive synthesis. But
times have changed.“Evodevo” is one of the hottest research areas in both evolutionary …