What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this
volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as …

The “demarcation problem,” the issue of how to separate science from pseudoscience, has
been around since fall 1919—at least according to Karl Popper's (1957) recollection of when …

Los valores morales sirven de fundamento a una vida social. En la raíz de las prácticas
morales humanas están los deseos sociales; básicamente, estos deseos implican apego a …

In this article I argue that evolutionary psychological strategies for making inferences about
present-day human psychology are methodologically unsound. Evolutionary psychology is …

Biological research on race has often been seen as motivated by or lending credence to
underlying racist attitudes; in part for this reason, recently philosophers and biologists have …

Modularity is one of the most important concepts used to articulate a theory of cognitive
architecture. Over the last 30 years, the debate in many areas of the cognitive sciences and …

The disciplinary history of International Relations (IR) has been marked by confrontation
between those who believe that the study of politics can and should be modelled on the …

The defining insight of evolutionary psychology consists of bringing considerations drawn
from evolutionary biology to bear on the study of human psychology. So characterized …

Two decades ago, the eminent evolutionary biologist George C. Williams and his physician
coauthor, Randolph Nesse, formulated the evolutionary medicine research program …

The disagreement between philosophers about the scientific worth of the evolutionary
behavioral sciences (evolutionary psychology, human behavioral ecology, etc.) is in part …