"Two-Thousand Years of Stasis": How Psychological Essentialism Impedes Evolutionary Understa

By Susan A. Gelman, Marjorie Rhodes. 2012

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science

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• The scope of formal explanation (2017, background): “This perspective is at odds with certain modern scientific theories, including the theory of evolution (Gelman & Rhodes, 2012; Hull, 1965), but is intrinsic to both common-sense conception and language.”
• The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization (2017, unknown): “This typological characterization fundamentally underestimates within-category variation (in its phenotypic features and in it’s gene pool) and over-estimates between category variation (and borderline cases are often encountered; Mayr, 2004; Gelman and Rhodes, 2012).”