Explanation and environment: the case of psychology
Wallin, Annika LU
(2007)
p.163-176
- Abstract
- The environment in which our cognitive processes operate is crucial for understanding their current form, their reliability, and their function. In the following pages I will look at the role the environment plays in psychological explanations of cognitive behaviour, also when the explanations are not of an evolutionary character. In particular, I will focus on how environmental considerations (broadly) help us explain the form or the function of a psychological process.
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- Wallin, Annika
LU
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- publishing date
- 2007
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Rethinking Explanation
- editor
- Persson, Johannes and Ylikoski, Petri
- pages
- 163 - 176
- publisher
- Springer
- ISBN
- 978-1-4020-5580-5
- language
- English
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- yes
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