Catherine M Driscoll

Works (17)

Updated: April 5th, 2024 04:37

2024 journal article

Can human nature be saved?

STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, 103, 39–45.

By: C. Driscoll n

Source: Web Of Science
Added: January 2, 2024

2023 article

LIFE IS SIMPLE: HOW OCCAM'S RAZOR SET SCIENCE FREE AND SHAPES THE UNIVERSE

Driscoll, C. (2023, June 1). QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY, Vol. 98, pp. 86–87.

By: C. Driscoll n

Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 21, 2023

2018 journal article

Cultural evolution and the social sciences: a case of unification?

BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY, 33(1-2).

By: C. Driscoll n

author keywords: Cultural evolution; Dual inheritance theory; Scientific unification; Social learning
TL;DR: It is argued that CES is best understood as having a unificatory or integrative role between evolutionary biology and the social sciences, and that it is best characterized as a bridge field. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2017 journal article

The Evolutionary Culture Concepts

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, 84(1), 35–55.

By: C. Driscoll*

TL;DR: This article shows how the main prominent attempts to define a culture concept fail to properly capture all the uses of “culture" employed in cultural evolutionary work. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2015 journal article

Neither Adaptive Thinking nor Reverse Engineering: methods in the evolutionary social sciences

BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY, 30(1), 59–75.

By: C. Driscoll n

author keywords: Evolutionary psychology; Human behavioral ecology; Adaptive Thinking; Reverse Engineering; Optimality models; Adaptationism
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Constructive criticism: An evaluation of Buller and Hardcastle's genetic and neuroscientific arguments against Evolutionary Psychology

PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 27(6), 907–925.

By: C. Driscoll*

author keywords: Philosophy of Cognitive Science; Brain Development; Neuroscience; Evolutionary Psychology
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 book review

Review of Studying Human Behavior: Helen Longino, Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2013), 256 pp., $75.00 (cloth).

[Review of Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality, by H. Longino]. Philosophy of Science, 81(4), 676–680.

By: C. Driscoll*

TL;DR: In Studying Human Behavior Helen Longino takes just such a view of a series of approaches used to study the causes of human behavior, in particular aggression and homosexuality: she argues that these approaches could not contribute to such a single complete account and that it is not clear that such an account is even desirable. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (OpenAlex)
Source: Crossref
Added: December 8, 2020

2014 review

Studying human behavior: How scientists investigate aggression and sexuality

[Review of ]. Philosophy of Science, 81(4), 676–680.

By: C. Driscoll

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2013 article

The Philosophy of Human Evolution

Driscoll, C. (2013, January). PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, Vol. 80, pp. 160–164.

By: C. Driscoll*

TL;DR: Michael Ruse’s The Philosophy of Human Evolution addresses a very broad range of philosophical questions connected to human evolution, including how certain problems in general philosophy of biology apply to the evolution of humans and how evolutionary biology answers certain socially problematic questions about the nature of humans. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2012 article

Evolution and the loss of hierarchies: Dubreuil's "Human evolution and the origin of hierarchies: the state of nature"

Driscoll, C. (2012, January). BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 27, pp. 125–135.

By: C. Driscoll n

UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2011 journal article

Fatal Attraction? Why Sperber's Attractors do not Prevent Cumulative Cultural Evolution

BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, 62(2), 301–322.

By: C. Driscoll*

Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2009 journal article

Grandmothers, hunters and human life history

BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY, 24(5), 665–686.

By: C. Driscoll n

author keywords: Philosophy of biology; Life history theory; Grandmother hypothesis; Embodied capital theory; Group selection
TL;DR: This paper argues that the correct explanation for human life history probably involves elements of both hypotheses: long male developmental periods and lives probably evolved due to group selection for male hunting via increased female fertility, and female long lives due to the differential contribution women's complex foraging skills made to their children and grandchildren’s nutritional status within groups provisioned by male hunting. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
2. Zero Hunger (OpenAlex)
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2009 journal article

On our best behavior: optimality models in human behavioral ecology

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 40(2), 133–141.

By: C. Driscoll n

author keywords: Optimality models; Human behavioral ecology; Foraging theory
MeSH headings : Animals; Behavior; Behavior, Animal; Genetics, Behavioral; Humans; Models, Biological; Phenotype; Selection, Genetic; Sociobiology
TL;DR: This paper suggests some ways in which human behavioral ecologists might adjust how they employ optimality models, and urges the abandonment of the phenotypic gambit in the human case. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (Web of Science)
15. Life on Land (OpenAlex)
Source: Crossref
Added: August 8, 2021

2008 journal article

The problem of adaptive individual choice in cultural evolution

BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY, 23(1), 101–113.

By: C. Driscoll n

author keywords: cultural evolution; adaptive decision making; social learning
TL;DR: It is argued that the problem of adaptive individual choice is best solved where some of these learning rule representations are socially transmitted and some are biologically transmitted. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2006 journal article

The bowerbirds and the bees: Miller on art, altruism, and sexual selection

PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 19(4), 507–526.

By: C. Driscoll*

author keywords: evolutionary psychology; psychology of art; evolutionary explanations of altruism; sexual selection; group selection; cultural evolution
TL;DR: It is argued that one can explain the origins of altruism via a form of group selection and traits with the five characteristics in terms of a process I call “cultural sexual selection.” (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2005 journal article

Killing Babies: Hrdy on the Evolution of Infanticide

Biology & Philosophy, 20(2-3), 271–289.

By: C. Driscoll*

author keywords: cultural evolution; infanticide; psychological adaptations; Sarah Hrdy; sociobiology
TL;DR: It is argued that while psychopathological and cultural evolutionary accounts for Hrdy's data fail, her suggested psychological architecture for the strategy suggests that the behavior she describes is really only the consequence of the operation of practical reasoning mechanism(s) – and consequently there is no reproductive strategy including infanticide as such. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: August 8, 2021

2004 journal article

Can Behaviors Be Adaptations?*

Philosophy of Science, 71(1), 16–35.

By: C. Driscoll*

TL;DR: It is argued that the strong interpretation of Kim Sterelny and Paul Griffiths' argument that sociobiology is unworkable fails because functionalist psychology need not prevent behaviors from evolving independently, and it relies on too strong an interpretation of the quasi‐independence criterion. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Crossref
Added: August 8, 2021

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