scholarly journals An evolutionary account of vigilance in grief

2017 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire White ◽  
Daniel M T Fessler
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Account

An Economic and Jurisprudential Genealogy of Corporate Law. By Michael J. Whincop. [Aldershot: Ashgate. 2001. xviii, 222, (Bibliography) 20 and (Index) 5 pp. Hardback £45. ISBN 1–84014–773–3.]

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 463-492
Author(s):  
John Armour
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Law ◽  
Company Law ◽  
Economic Methodology ◽  
Evolutionary Account ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Intuitive Appeal ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law

Economic analysis has recently gained a high profile in English company law scholarship, not least through its employment by the Law Commissions and its resonance with the Company Law Review. This approach has taught us much about how company law functions in relation to the marketplace. Whincop’s book is, however, the first attempt to use economic methodology not only to explain how the law functions, but also to provide an evolutionary account of why the history of English company law followed the path it did. The result is a thesis that, whilst complex, has a powerful intuitive appeal for those familiar with Victorian company law judgments.

scholarly journals Steps Towards an Evolutionary Account of Argumentative Competence

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristián Santibáñez Yáñéz
Keyword(s):  
Niche Construction ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Informal Logic ◽  
Collective Intentionality ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Evolutionary Account ◽  
Logic Approach ◽  
Tentative Explanation ◽  
Argumentative Competence ◽  
Evolutionary Point

In this paper a tentative explanation of the competence of argumentation from an evolutionary point of view is offered. Because in contemporary argumentation theory and the informal logic approach the evolutionary perspective has been neglected, this paper gives an initial overview on the matter with the hope that core aspects of the argumentative faculty—such as argumentative normativity, the function of arguments, or fallacious moves, among others—can be seen differently afterwards. In order to specify the proposal, the main concepts considered are the notion of collective intentionality, cooperation, reputation, niche construction and, of course, basic evolutionary terms.

Is Cognitive Modularity Necessary in an Evolutionary Account of Development?

2009 ◽  
pp. 105-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora S. Newcombe ◽  
Kristin R. Ratliff ◽  
Wendy L. Shallcross ◽  
Alexandra Twyman
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Account ◽  
Cognitive Modularity

Reward

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-67
Author(s):  
Dan P. McAdams
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Personality Trait ◽  
Social Dominance ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Evolutionary Account ◽  
Social Actors

“Reward” explores the personality trait of extraversion in the life of Donald Trump. The chapter begins with an evolutionary account of extraversion’s powerful role in human groups, as a personality trait that enables social actors to attract and hold the attention of others. Studied for over 70 years by personality psychologists, extraversion entails social dominance, gregariousness, and the relentless seeking of reward. Donald Trump is one of the most extraverted human beings on the planet today. The chapter traces the development of this trait in Trump’s life and illustrates how it has served Trump well, infusing tremendous energy and primal charisma into many of his social moments, as he moves from one moment to the next in life. Extraversion is one of five broad and basic traits identified by personality psychologists, often called the Big Five.

Universal sex differences across patriarchal cultures ≠ evolved psychological dispositions

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice H. Eagly ◽  
Wendy Wood
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Reproductive Capacity ◽  
Evolutionary Account ◽  
Psychological Attributes ◽  
Social Structural ◽  
Biological Attributes ◽  
Structural Aspects

Schmitt's findings provide little evidence that sex differences in sociosexuality are explained by evolved dispositions. These sex differences are better explained by an evolutionary account that treats the psychological attributes of women and men as emergent, given the biological attributes of the sexes, especially female reproductive capacity, and the economic and social structural aspects of societies.

Pathologies in Narrative Structures

2007 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 203-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Process ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Wide Sense ◽  
Evolutionary Account ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Narrative Practice ◽  
Plot Structure ◽  
Narrative Framework ◽  
Narrative Understanding

Per Aage Brandt, commenting on a passage from Merlin Donald, suggests that there is ‘a narrative aesthetics built into our mind.’ In Donald, one can find an evolutionary account of this narrative aesthetics. If there is something like an innate narrative disposition, it is also surely the case that there is a process of development involved in narrative practice. In this paper I will assume something closer to the developmental account provided by Jerome Bruner in various works, and Dan Hutto's account of how we learn narrative practices, and I'll refer to this narrative aesthetics as a narrative competency that we come to have through a developmental process. I will take narrative in a wide sense, to include oral and written communications and self-reports on experience. In this regard narrative is more basic than story, and not necessarily characterized by the formal plot structure of a story. A story may be told in many different ways, but always via narrative discourse. Also, having narrative competency includes not just abilities for understanding narratives, but also for narrative understanding, which allows us to form narratives about things, events and other people. To be capable of narrative understanding means to be capable of seeing events in a narrative framework.

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