Evolutionary psychology: the emperor's new paradigm

Evolutionary psychology: the emperor's new paradigm.

For some evolutionary psychology is merely a field of inquiry, but for others it is a robust paradigm involving specific theories about the nature and evolution of the human mind. Proponents of this paradigm claim to have made several important discoveries regarding the evolved architecture of the mind. Highly publicized discoveries include a cheater-detection module, a psychological sex differ...

Formal Epistemology and the New Paradigm Psychology of Reasoning

This position paper advocates combining formal epistemology and the new paradigm psychology of reasoning in the studies of conditionals and reasoning with uncertainty. The new paradigm psychology of reasoning is characterized by the use of probability theory as a rationality framework instead of classical logic, used by more traditional approaches to the psychology of reasoning. This paper pres...

New blood: Rome’s emperors in global perspective

The Roman imperial monarchy is generally studied from the vantage point of ancient Roman history: the “Roman emperor” is viewed and analyzed as an element of the Roman world. This conventional approach fails to place this institution in a broader comparative context, that of monarchical rulers across world history. Systematic comparison opens up new perspectives and is indispensable in identify...

A New Evolutionary Adaptive Representation Paradigm

In this paper a new evolutionary paradigm is proposed. A technique called Adaptive Representation Evolutionary Algorithm (AREA) based on this paradigm is designed. AREA involves dynamic alphabets for encoding solutions. Proposed adaptive representation is more compact than binary representation. Mutation is the unique variation operator. Mutations are usually more aggressive when higher alphabe...

Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology