Sociobiology is the scientific study of the biological bases of social behavior among animals, including humans. The new field of evolutionary sociology is the product of recent efforts by sociologists to integrate sociobiological reasoning into their theoretical thinking and empirical research. Evolutionary sociologists reject the Standard Social Science Model of human nature and human social ...

Given its renown, many psychologists and sociologists likely consider the publication of Gordon Allport's (1954/1979) seminal book The Nature of Prejudice as the inauguration of the psychological study of prejudice. However, we have uncovered rarely-cited, published papers (starting in 1830) that provide a wealth of speculation on prejudice even before psychologists/sociologists attempted to me...

What is structural rationality? Specifically, what the distinctive feature of requirements Some philosophers have argued, roughly, that coherence. But does coherence mean, exactly? Or, at least, do structuralists about rationality in mind when they claim coherence? This issue matters for making progress various active debates concerning rationality. In this paper, I analyze three strategies fig...