9 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Israeli philosopher of biology who has worked on the concept of biological race, biodiversity, and the philosophy of conservation biology.
American philosopher who developed the intentional stance — attributing beliefs and desires to systems as a predictive strategy — and argued that consciousness, free will, and the self are useful illusions generated by the brain's narrative processing.
American philosopher working on associationism, mechanistic explanation, and animal cognition.
American philosopher working on evolutionary approaches to ethics and the philosophy of biology.
Australian philosopher of biology at the University of Sydney who studies the evolution of mind and consciousness — most notably in octopuses and other cephalopods — whose Other Minds argues that cephalopod intelligence evolved entirely independently of vertebrate intelligence.
American philosopher who has worked on evolutionary psychology and its epistemological implications.
New Zealand-British psychologist at the University of Nottingham Malaysia whose The Ape That Understood the Universe is one of the best popular evolutionary psychology books.
Steve Stewart-Williams's 2018 book examining what evolutionary psychology and memetics reveal about human nature — written as if an alien scientist were studying humans — covering sex differences, altruism, cooperation, and cultural evolution.
American philosopher who has worked on the philosophy of evolutionary biology and Darwin's theory.