Evolutionary psychology: the emperor's new paradigm.

Paradigms, emperor's clothes syndrome, and hidden curriculum: how do they affect joint, bone, and spine diseases?

“Paradigm” is derived from a Greek word meaning “model” or “example”, which in turn comes from a verb that means “to show”. As a mental construct, a paradigm is an accepted rule that is interiorized as the norm by a scientific community at a point of its history. This norm delimits fields—and questions pertaining to those fields—that the scientific community deems worthy of investigation. Philo...

Buller does to Evolutionary Psychology what Kitcher did to Sociobiology. A review of Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature by David J. Buller

Just as Kitcher's Vaulting Ambition (1985) tried to undermine the paradigm of sociobiology, so David Buller attempts to undermine the paradigm of evolutionary psychology. This book, also written by a philosopher of science, may well be the most widely accessible, informed, sophisticated and carefully written systematic critique of evolutionary psychology on the market. It is an important book t...

A New Method for Geolocating of Radiation Sources Based on Evolutionary Computation of TDOA Equations

In this article a new method is introduced for geolocating of signal emitters which is based on evolutionary computation (EC) concept. In the proposed method two well-known members of EC techniques including Bees Algorithm (BA) and Genetic Algorithm (GA), are utilized to estimate the positions of emitters by optimizing the hyperbola equations which have been resulted from Time Difference of Arr...

O16: How Do Concepts of Evolutionary Psychology and Evolutionary Psychiatry Explain Anxiety Disorders?

Our ancestors without fear, worry and anxiety are not our ancestors, as organisms without defense systems were extinct. Therefore, while behavior such as fear and anxiety are useful to prevent harm, the exaggerated form, that is, anxiety disorders, has more costs than benefits. Likewise, while a panic attack is a normal and useful response in the face of life-threatening danger, a panic disorde...

The emperor's new clothes.