Authors: Susan Oyama (Editor), Paul E. Griffiths (Editor), Russell D. Gray
ISBN-13: 9780262650632, ISBN-10: 0262650630
Format: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: Reprint
Susan Oyama is Professor of Psychology, Emerita, at John Jay College, and at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York City.
Paul E. Griffiths is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
Russell D. Gray is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Auckland.
Provides historical background to DST, recent theoretical findings on the mechanisms of heredity,
applications of the DST framework to behavioral development,
implications of DST for the philosophy of biology, and critical reactions to DST.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Contributors | ||
1 | Introduction: What Is Developmental Systems Theory? | |
I | Influences | |
2 | Toward a Systems View of Development: An Appraisal of Lehrman's Critique of Lorenz | |
3 | A Critique of Konrad Lorenz's Theory of Instinctive Behavior | |
4 | A Developmental Psychobiological Systems View: Early Formulation and Current Status | |
5 | Gene, Organism and Environment: A New Introduction | |
6 | Gene, Organism and Environment | |
II | Rethinking Heredity | |
7 | Let's Talk about Genes: The Process Molecular Gene Concept and Its Context | |
8 | Deconstructing the Gene and Reconstructing Molecular Developmental Systems | |
9 | The Systems of Inheritance | |
10 | Niche Construction, Ecological Inheritance, and Cycles of Contingency in Evolution | |
III | The Development of Phenotypes and Behavior | |
11 | The Ontogeny of Phenotypes | |
12 | The Development of Ant Colony Behavior | |
13 | Behavioral Development and Darwinian Evolution | |
14 | Parental Care and Development | |
IV | Rethinking Development and Evolution | |
15 | Terms in Tension: What Do You Do When All the Good Words Are Taken? | |
16 | Darwinism and Developmental Systems | |
17 | Generative Entrenchment and the Developmental Systems Approach to Evolutionary Processes | |
18 | Developmental Systems, Darwinian Evolution, and the Unity of Science | |
19 | From Complementarity to Obviation: On Dissolving the Boundaries between Social and Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, and Psychology | |
V | Responses to Developmental Systems Theory | |
20 | On the Status and Explanatory Structure of Developmental Systems Theory | |
21 | Beyond the Gene but Beneath the Skin | |
22 | Distributed Agency within Intersecting Ecological, Social, and Scientific Processes | |
23 | Niche Construction, Developmental Systems, and the Extended Replicator | |
24 | Developmental Systems Theory and Ethics: Different Ways to Be Normative with Regard to Science | |
Index |