This chapter notes that the use of intuitions to jump-start more sophisticated reasoning has
been proposed for mathematics. The question addressed is whether core intuitions can also …

Cognitive psychology has an opportunity to turn itself into a theoretically rigorous discipline
in which a powerful set of theories organize observations and suggest focused new …

In a world where natural selection has shaped adaptations of astonishing ingenuity, what is
the scope and unique power of rational thinking? In this short but wide-ranging book …

Modern science has come to be regarded as an exclusively objective endeavor employing
explicit language that attempts to exclude subjective anthropomorphic biases. In doing so it …

Experimental philosophy has emerged as an important new interdisciplinary approach in
cognitive science. One of most interesting features of this new development is that very …

Evolutionary psychology is put forward by its defenders as an extension of evolutionary
biology, bringing psychology within the integrated causal chain of the hard sciences. It is …

Biogenic approaches investigate cognition from the standpoint of evolutionary function,
asking what cognition does for a living system and then looking for common principles and …

Evolutionary thinking has expanded in the last decades, spreading from its traditional
stronghold-the explanation of speciation and adaptation in biology-to new domains …

Is theistic evolution (TE) a philosophically tenable position? Leidenhag argues in his article
“The Blurred Line between Theistic Evolution and Intelligent Design” that it is not, since it …

A strong case has been made for the role and value of mechanistic reasoning in process-
oriented sciences, such as molecular biology and neuroscience. This paper shifts focus to …