Here's another run on the adaptive value of literature, this one grounded in observation about the chemical basis of mental experience. The concluding ...
Cogliters, As you know, Brian Boyd has just published book on stories. While the title made me blush, it¹s got some good stuff in it. I¹ve appended a short...
BiopoeticsHi biopoets, Tom and I have already communicated...But wanted people here to know that Joe Carroll and I are now co-editing The Evolutionary Review...
Hi folks, There is an article in The Nation that vigorously attacks literary Darwinism: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090608/deresiewicz/single?rel=nofollow ...
Hi Everybody, I occasionally send out notices about publications or postings to people interested in the evolutionary study of the arts. I recently updated the...
The National Humanities Center is hosting an online "Forum" about the adaptive function of the arts. I've posted a short essay on that subject there. Anyone...
Hi folks, Scientific American posted a comment on recent journalistic attacks on EP. http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=evolutionary-ps ...
"Natural selection carved our behavior and locked it in place"!?! Ah, me. jt Jeff P. Turpin, President Turpin and Sons Inc. Cultural Resource Management 2047...
The Brooks article was messy and not worth much discussion. But it did have one extraordinary proposition: "Shopping isn't merely a way to broadcast permanent,...
Norm Holland has published a book on Literature and the Brain. It's based on a graduate seminar he taught over several years at U of Florida. Bill B ...
Good deal. I hope it is less monolithic than some of the recent "This is THE adaptive function of literature" texts that have popped out recently. Stories...
Holland's book looks like a trove of good ideas. I can't wait to get my hands on it, frankly, based on the table of contents. Has anyone read it? Jeff--Can you...
That should've read, Perhaps we are predisposed to come up with unitary explanations as individuals, but as readers, when we pan back and take a look at the...
I¹ve not read it but I¹ve read early drafts of most of the chapters. Yes, it¹s full of ideas. As for the adaptive function of literature, I doubt that...
Here's a paragraph from an article in press, on multiple adaptive functions. A lot of people identify various functions. Boyd usually gets in four or five,...
Hi Tim. I don't want to call out any specific authors or approaches on a listserv, (especially when I may be on the job market soon!), but as I am finishing...
Well put. Simply substituting the phrase "one function" for "the function" makes the point. Lots of tools in the kit. jt Jeff P. Turpin, President Turpin and...
Good. A provocative spin. But is the Wilson/Carroll argument that humans no longer have instincts, or that we no longer rely on them at all, or that we no...
I'll copy below the paragraphs that follow the quick summary of the various adaptive functions people have suggested. This is from an article on "agonistic...
Is the Wilson/Carroll argument that humans no longer have instincts, or that we no longer rely on them at all, or that we no longer rely on them exclusively? ...
Joe and others, Perhaps I spoke sloppily, as that's precisely the sort of panning out I was referring to, where an author adduces various explanations and...
Tim--The longer I view Joe's "adaptive functions" claim, the more seductive it becomes, if you include what, how, and why in that claim. But I think your two...
Joe, I really like the first two paragraphs below. The first two long paragraphs. I didn't quite think of the imaginative functions as there to regulate...
Thanks, Maya. Yes, I mean "regulate" in just the way you do: "mitigate, stimulate, control, augment and synthesize the body's more immediate thoughts and...
Hi Everybody, Michael Ryan and Amitava Kumar co-edit an online journal, Politics and Culture: http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/index2.cfm. They...
Hello again, I've agreed to be guest editor for a special issue of the online journal Politics and Culture devoted to the topic: "Bioculture: Evolutionary ...
Hello, Judith Saunders gave me a good suggestion for the special evolutionary issue of Politics and Culture. She suggested that I list some recent and...
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