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- PhD Philosophy University of New Zealand
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kim Sterelny is an Australian philosopher and professor of philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University and Victoria University of Wellington. He is the winner of several international prizes in the philosophy of science, and was previously editor of Biology and Philosophy. He is also a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is currently the First Vice President of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology .
Kim Sterelny's Published Works
Published Works
- The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions (2015) (818)
- Does evolutionary theory need a rethink? (2014) (728)
- Cause and Effect in Biology Revisited: Is Mayr’s Proximate-Ultimate Dichotomy Still Useful? (2011) (515)
- Language And Reality (1987) (394)
- Sex and Death. An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology (M. Matthen) (1999) (381)
- Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition (2003) (375)
- Minds: extended or scaffolded? (2010) (357)
- The return of the Gene (1988) (311)
- PERSPECTIVE: SEVEN REASONS (NOT) TO NEGLECT NICHE CONSTRUCTION (2006) (295)
- Language and reality: An introduction to the philosophy of language (1987) (294)
- The Imagery Debate (1986) (287)
- The extended replicator (1996) (238)
- What Is Biodiversity (2008) (238)
- The adapted mind (1995) (238)
- The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited (2011) (220)
- The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique (2012) (210)
- Externalism, Epistemic Artefacts and The Extended Mind (2004) (201)
- The Representational Theory Of Mind (1991) (185)
- Social intelligence, human intelligence and niche construction (2007) (182)
- Sense and Content: Experience, Thought, and their Relations (1984) (179)
- From hominins to humans: how sapiens became behaviourally modern (2011) (155)
- The Evolution and Evolvability of Culture (2006) (152)
- The tale of the finch: adaptive radiation and behavioural flexibility (2010) (142)
- Language, gesture, skill: the co-evolutionary foundations of language (2012) (134)
- Niche Construction, Developmental Systems and the Extended Replicator (2001) (103)
- The "Genetic Program" Program: A Commentary on Maynard Smith on Information in Biology (2000) (101)
- Genes, Memes and Human History (2004) (100)
- Explanatory pluralism in evolutionary biology (1996) (98)
- Science and selection (1994) (93)
- Made By Each Other: Organisms and Their Environment (2005) (77)
- The Representational Theory of Mind: An Introduction (1991) (77)
- In defence of story-telling. (2017) (72)
- From folk psychology to cognitive science (1985) (71)
- Why reason? Hugo Mercier's and Dan Sperber's The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding (2018) (69)
- The Evolution of Agency and Other Essays (2000) (69)
- How to think about the Modularity of Mind-Reading (2000) (65)
- The illusory Riches of Sober's monism (1990) (62)
- Language and Reality: An Introduction to Philosophy of Language (2nd ed) (1999) (62)
- Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest (2007) (56)
- Fodor's nativism (1989) (55)
- From mechanisms to function: an integrated framework of animal innovation (2016) (55)
- A Paleolithic Reciprocation Crisis: Symbols, Signals, and Norms (2014) (54)
- Cooperation, Culture, and Conflict (2016) (54)
- From mating to mentality: evaluating evolutionary psychology (2003) (54)
- Development, Evolution, and Adaptation (2000) (53)
- Cooperation and its Evolution (2013) (51)
- Moral Nativism: A Sceptical Response (2010) (50)
- The Return of the Group (1996) (48)
- Local Ecological Communities* (2006) (47)
- Symbiosis, Evolvability, and Modularity (2004) (46)
- Natural Kind Terms (1983) (46)
- LINGUISTICS: WHAT'S WRONG WITH "THE RIGHT VIEW" (1989) (46)
- Evolution and Moral Realism (2016) (41)
- Cultural evolution in California and Paris (2017) (41)
- Species as Ecological Mosaics (1999) (40)
- Memes Revisited (2006) (39)
- Neolithization in Southwest Asia in a Context of Niche Construction Theory (2015) (39)
- SNAFUS: An Evolutionary Perspective (2007) (34)
- Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach. Dan Sperber (2001) (33)
- Religion re-explained (2017) (33)
- Another view of life (2005) (31)
- Contingency and History (2016) (30)
- Understanding life: recent work in philosophy of biology (1995) (29)
- Cognitive Load and Human Decision, or, Three Ways of Rolling the Rock Up Hill (2003) (29)
- Cumulative Cultural Evolution and the Origins of Language (2016) (28)
- A review of Evolution and learning: the Baldwin effect reconsidered edited by Bruce Weber and David Depew (2004) (26)
- The role of learning in punishment , prosociality , and human uniqueness (2010) (26)
- Darwinian spaces: Peter Godfrey-Smith on selection and evolution (2011) (25)
- Last Will and Testament: Stephen Jay Gould’s The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (2003) (23)
- Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology (2010) (23)
- THE NATURE OF SPECIES (1994) (22)
- Bacteria at the High Table (1999) (21)
- Symbols, Signals, and the Archaeological Record (2014) (21)
- The Reality of Ecological Assemblages: A Palaeo-ecological Puzzle (2001) (21)
- The Elusive synthesis (2005) (21)
- The pony fish's glow and other clues to plan and purpose in nature (1997) (20)
- Artifacts, Symbols, Thoughts (2017) (19)
- Peacekeeping in the Culture Wars (2009) (17)
- WHAT IS EVOLVABILITY (2007) (17)
- Introduction: A Dynamic View of Evolution (2011) (16)
- The Pleistocene Social Contract (2021) (16)
- Novelty, Plasticity and Niche Construction: The Influence of Phenotypic Variation on Evolution (2009) (16)
- Optimizing Engines: Rational Choice in the Neolithic? (2015) (16)
- From code to speaker meaning (2017) (14)
- Folk logic and animal rationality (2006) (13)
- Content, Control and Display: The Natural Origins of Content (2015) (13)
- Intentional agency and the metarepresentation hypothesis (1998) (12)
- Adaptable individuals and innovative lineages (2016) (12)
- Deacon’s Challenge: From Calls to Words (2016) (12)
- Cooperation in a Complex World: The Role of Proximate Factors in Ultimate Explanations (2013) (11)
- Evolutionary explanations of human behaviour (1992) (11)
- Life in Interesting Times: Cooperation and Collective Action in the Holocene (2013) (11)
- Beyond Homo Economicus (2015) (10)
- Review article. Universal biology (1997) (10)
- Charting control-space: Comments on Susan Hurley's 'Animal action in the space of reasons' (2003) (10)
- Humans as model organisms (2017) (10)
- Language: From How-Possibly to How-Probably? (2017) (10)
- From Signal to Symbol (2021) (10)
- Addressing Complexity (2008) (10)
- From fitness to utility (2012) (10)
- Demography and cultural complexity (2020) (9)
- The Origins of Multi-level Society (2019) (8)
- The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2003) (8)
- Ecological hierarchy and biodiversity (2016) (8)
- An Alternative Evolutionary Psychology (2007) (8)
- Macroevolution, Minimalism and the Radiation of the Animals (2007) (7)
- Exploring cycad foliage as an archive of the isotopic composition of atmospheric nitrogen (2019) (7)
- Rational Agency in Evolutionary Perspective (2010) (7)
- Mental representation: What language is brainese? (1983) (7)
- The Evolved Apprentice Model: Scope and Limits (2013) (7)
- Constructing the Cooperative Niche (2014) (7)
- The Meaning of “Theory” in Biology (2013) (7)
- The Perils and Promises of Cognitive Archaeology: An Introduction to the Thematic Issue (2017) (6)
- Computational Functional Psychology: Problems and Prospects (1989) (6)
- Darwinian concepts in the philosophy of mind (2003) (6)
- Religion: costs, signals, and the Neolithic transition (2020) (6)
- Where Does Thinking Come From? A Commentary on Peter Godfrey-Smith's Complexity and the Function of Mind In Nature (1997) (6)
- Innovation, life history and social networks in human evolution (2020) (6)
- Language, modularity and evolution (2006) (5)
- The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable. By Suzana Herculano-Houzel. Cambridge (Massachusetts): MIT Press. $29.95. xiii + 256 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-262-03425-8. 2016. (2017) (5)
- Veiled agency? Children, innovation and the archaeological record (2021) (5)
- What is Behavioural Modernity (2008) (4)
- AGAINST CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE (1982) (4)
- Language and Niche Construction (2008) (4)
- Philosophy of Evolutionary Thought (2009) (4)
- Civilizing Cooperation: Paul Seabright and the Company of Strangers (2011) (4)
- A GLASS HALF-FULL: BRIAN SKYRMS'S SIGNALS (2012) (4)
- Afterword: Tough Questions; Hard Problems; Incremental Progress (2020) (4)
- Linguistic theory and variable rules (1983) (4)
- Roboroach, or, The Extended Phenotype Meets Cognitive Science (2000) (3)
- Norms and their Evolution (2019) (3)
- On Our Moral Fate (2021) (3)
- Punctuated Equilibrium and Macroevolution (1992) (3)
- Evolutionary Foundations for a Theory of Moral Progress? (2019) (3)
- Book Review:Knowing Who Stephen E. Boer, William G. Lycan (1988) (3)
- Looking After Number One? (2000) (3)
- Culture and the Extended Phenotype (2018) (3)
- Po-Bo Man (2004) (3)
- Situated Agency and the Descent of Desire (1999) (3)
- Religion well explained? A response to commentaries on “Religion Re-explained” (2017) (3)
- Sceptical Reflections on Human Nature (2018) (2)
- Adaption without Insight? (2017) (2)
- DAVIDSON ON TRUTH AND REFERENCE (1981) (2)
- Foragers and Their Tools: Risk, Technology and Complexity (2021) (2)
- Refuting Eliminative Materialism on the Cheap (1993) (2)
- Natural kinds terms (1983) (2)
- Comprar Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition | Kim Sterelny | 9780631188865 | Wiley (2008) (2)
- Dawkins' Bulldog. An Essay review of Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1999) (2)
- Categories, categorisation and development: Introspective knowledge is no threat to functionalism (1993) (2)
- Symbols, Signals, and the Archaeological Record (2014) (1)
- The Perverse Primate (2006) (1)
- Farewell (2016) (1)
- Kinship Revisited (2021) (1)
- Whiten and the ZLS: Comment on "Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition" by Andrew Whiten. (2022) (1)
- Human Behavioral Ecology, Optimality, and Human Action (2013) (1)
- The Triumph of a Reasonable Man: Stich, Mindreading and Nativism (2009) (1)
- Further thoughts on hierarchy and inequality (2022) (1)
- Reply to Papineau and Stich (2004) (1)
- The Archaeology of the Extended Mind (2019) (1)
- Ethnography, Archaeology, and the Late Pleistocene (2022) (1)
- Universal Biology1 (1997) (1)
- CHAPTER 4. Adaption Without Insight? (2018) (1)
- The Skill Hypothesis: A Variant (2021) (1)
- Red Queen in Australia (2023) (1)
- Rethinking Inheritance (2007) (1)
- SNAFUS: An Evolutionary Perspective 1 (2007) (0)
- Evolutionary Approaches to Human Behavior: Philosophical Aspects (2015) (0)
- Navigating the Social World: Simulation versus Theory (1997) (0)
- Costs and Commitments (2012) (0)
- Demography and cultural complexity (2020) (0)
- Cooperation in a Larger World (2021) (0)
- 10. Response to Vollmer's Review of Minds and Molecules Response to Vollmer's Review of Minds and Molecules (pp. 391-398) (2003) (0)
- Iiicomplexity and the developmental cycle (2011) (0)
- Deacon ’ s Challenge : From Calls to Words 4 (0)
- Philosophy of Mental Representation (2004) (0)
- The Perils and Promises of Cognitive Archaeology: An Introduction to the Thematic Issue (2017) (0)
- The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: some modest reservations (2022) (0)
- 4. Morphology and Morphological Diversity (2019) (0)
- What Are the Ecological Drivers and Behavioural Preconditions for Behavioural Innovation (2013) (0)
- A Paleolithic Reciprocation Crisis: Symbols, Signals, and Norms (2014) (0)
- 6. Explorations in Ecospace (2019) (0)
- Introduction : The Evolution of evolutionary psychology (2003) (0)
- Moral externalisation fails to scale (2018) (0)
- Content, Control and Display: The Natural Origins of Content (2015) (0)
- Michael Devitt, Cultural Evolution and the Division of Linguistic Labour (2020) (0)
- Book Review:Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Volume XV: Cognitive Models of Science. Ronald N. Giere (1993) (0)
- Religion and its evolution: signals, norms, and secret histories (2020) (0)
- Philosophy of Biology, Psychology, and Neuroscience-The Developmental Systems Perspective in the Philosophy of Biology-Development, Evolution, and Adaptation (2000) (0)
- Cooperation and Conflict (2012) (0)
- The Origins of Multi-level Society (2019) (0)
- Building Cumulative Culture (2021) (0)
- The Evolution of Evolutionary Psychology (Introduction) (2003) (0)
- Session 2 (2009) (0)
- 20. Evolutionary Psychology (2012) (0)
- Signals, Cooperation, and Learning (2012) (0)
- 1. David J. Buller: Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature, David J. Buller: Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature, (pp. 232-246) (2006) (0)
- Joint evolution of traits for social learning (2023) (0)
- Tomasello, Michael. A Natural History of Human Thinking (2015) (0)
- Adapted Individuals, Adapted Environments (2012) (0)
- Cooperation in Hierarchical Communities (2021) (0)
- The Costs of Magical Thinking and Hypervigilance (2022) (0)
- How Ritual an Animal? Harvey Whitehouse on Ritual, Trust, and Cooperation (2022) (0)
- Supply-Side Biology: A Critical Notice of Rudy Raff's The Shape of Life (1999) (0)
- Never Apologize, Always Explain (2004) (0)
- RECENT WORK IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY (1991) (0)
- Book Review Cooperation and its Evolution (2015) (0)
- A Fierce Debate about Our Picture of Evolution (2017) (0)
- The Nature of Life: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives from Philosophy and Science: What is life? (2010) (0)
- NITROGEN ISOTOPES IN MODERN AND FOSSILIZED CYCAD LEAVES: EVOLUTIONARY AND GEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS (2016) (0)
- The Informational Commonwealth (2013) (0)
- 1. Taxonomy Red in Tooth and Claw (2019) (0)
- Philosophy of Biology (2016) (0)
- From Skills to Norms (2012) (0)
- Epilogue: Why Only Us? (2021) (0)
- Deacon’s Challenge: From Calls to Words (2015) (0)
- . nonfusion Over Ev ~ _ ution ' : An Exchang (0)
- Accumulating Cognitive Capital (2012) (0)
- Dawkins versus Gould and the survival of the fittest (2001) (0)
- Cooperation in a Complex World: The Role of Proximate Factors in Ultimate Explanations (2012) (0)
- Biology and Society: Reflections on Methodology Mohan Matthen and R. X. Ware, editors Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume 20 Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1994, vi + 308 pp., $30.00 (1998) (0)
- The Intentional Structure of Consciousness1 (2004) (0)
- Biology and Philosophy Area Review (2001) (0)
- A Mark of the Mental, by Karen Neander (2018) (0)
- The Meaning of “Theory” in Biology (2013) (0)
- Situated Agents: The descent of desire (1999) (0)
- Kim Sterelny review of Billy Griffiths, Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia (2020) (0)
- The Human Cooperation Syndrome (2012) (0)
- Editorial: David Hull 1935–2010 (2010) (0)
- Session 4 (2009) (0)
- The Challenge of Novelty (2012) (0)
- Supply-side biology (1999) (0)
- Was Syntax Borrowed from Toolmaking? (2021) (0)
- Ii Dual Inheritance and Cultural Evolution Iv Cumulative Evolution without Meme-like Replication? (2003) (0)
- Darwinism and its Influences (2013) (0)
- Cumulative Cultural Evolution and the Origins of Language (2016) (0)
- 2. Species: A Modest Proposal (2019) (0)
- From code to speaker meaning (2017) (0)
- Just another species of Large Mammal? Human cognition in evolutionary focus (2001) (0)
- My Nipples Explode with Delight: Signals, Co-operation, Learning (2008) (0)
- Development, evolution, and adaptation : Philosophy and Biology, Psychology, and Neuroscience (2000) (0)
- Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection (2011) (0)
- Connectionism Rules, OK? (1993) (0)
- Sociobiology: Philosophical Aspects (2001) (0)
- Learning, selection, and species (1990) (0)
- 9. Concluding Remarks (2019) (0)
- The Evolved Apprentice Model: Scope and Limits (2013) (0)
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