The tree of knowledge and Darwinian literary study

Philosophy and Literature

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 255-268

  Gottschall, Jonathan ^a  

^a ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60949475123     PISSN: 01900013     EISSN: 1086329X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/phl.2003.0047     Document Type: Review

References (53)

1. See Gerald Holton, The Advancement of Science and Its Burdens (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998)
2. Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory (New York: Pantheon Books, 1992)
3. Some of the foundational works in this movement include George Williams, Adaptation and Natural Selection (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966)
4. William Hamilton, "The Genetical Evolution of Social Behavior," Journal of Theoretical Biology 97 (1964): 1-52
5. Robert Trivers, "The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism," Quarterly Review of Biology 46 (1971): 35-57
6. Robert Trivers, "Parental Investment and Sexual Selection," in Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man: 1871-1971, ed. B. Campbell (Chicago: Aldine, 1972), pp. 136-79
7. Richard Alexander, Darwinism and Human Affairs (Seattle: University of Washington, 1979)
8. E. O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975)
9. E. O. Wilson, On Human Nature (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978)
10. For terminological guidance see Donald Symons, "If We're All Darwinians, What's All the Fuss About?" in Sociobiology and Psychology: Ideas, Issues and Applications, eds. C. Crawford, et al. (New York: Erlbaum, 1987), pp. 121-46
11. P. Sherman and H. Reeve, "Forward and Backward: Alternative approaches to Studying Human Social Evolution," in Human Nature: A Critical Reader, ed. Laura Betzig (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 147-58
12. Eric Smith, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, and Kim Hill, "Controversies in the Evolutionary Social Sciences: A Guide for the Perplexed," Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16 (2001): 128-35
13. For histories of these controversies see Ullica Segestrale, Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debates and Beyond (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
14. Andrew Brown, The Darwin Wars (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001)
15. Kim Sterelny and Jon Turney, eds., Dawkins Versus Gould: Survival of the Fittest (London: Totem Books, 2001)
16. Recently published evolutionary psychology textbooks that provide overviews of this research include David Buss, Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999)
17. Louise Barrett, Robin Dunbar, and John Lycett, Human Evolutionary Psychology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003)
18. Steven Gauglin and Donald McBurney, Evolutionary Psychology (New York: Prentice Hall, 2003)
19. E. O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), p. 198
20. Ullica Segestrale, "Don't Worry, Be Happy!: A Response to the Presidential Address," Human Ethology Bulletin 15 (2000): 8-9
21. Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957), p. 16
22. For a comprehensive overview of this research see especially the first five chapters of Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (New York: Viking Books, 2002)
23. for a review of human universals specifically see Donald Brown, Human Universals (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991)
24. See John Alcock, The Triumph of Sociobiology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
25. See M. MacMillian and F. Crews, eds., Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996)
26. F. Crews, ed., The Man Behind the Curtain: Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront A Legend (New York: Viking, 1999)
27. See C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
28. Wolf Lepenies, Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
29. Joseph Carroll, Evolution and Literary Theory (St. Louis: University of Missouri Press, 1994); hereafter abbreviated ELT
30. See Robert Storey, Mimesis and the Human Animal: On the Biogenetic Foundations of Literary Representation (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996); Carroll 1994
31. See Nancy Easterlin, "Psychoanalysis and the Discipline of Love," PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE 24 (2000): 261-79
32. Michelle Sugiyama, "New Science, Old Myth: An Evolutionary Critique of the Oedipal Paradigm," Mosaic 34 (2001): 121-36
33. For representative samples of this literature see special issues of PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE 25 (2001): 2
34. Human Nature 7 (1996): 4
35. Human Nature (2004, forthcoming)
36. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 2 (2001): 2
37. See also Jonathan Gottschall and David S. Wilson, eds., Literature and the Human Animal (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2004)
38. Joseph Carroll, Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature (New York: Routledge, 2004)
39. Brett Cooke and Frederick Turner, eds., Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts (Lexington, KY: ICUS, 1999)
40. Brett Cooke, "Biopoetics: The New Synthesis," in Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts, eds. Brett Cooke and Frederick Turner (Lexington, KY: ICUS, 1999)
41. Jonathan Gottschall et al., "Patterns of Characterization in Folk Tales Across Geographic Regions and Levels of Cultural Complexity: Literature as a Neglected Source of Quantitative Data," Human Nature (2004, forthcoming)
42. For defenses of scientific reductionism see Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (New York: W. W. Norton, 1988), pp. 13-15
43. Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea (New York: Touchstone, 1995), pp. 80-83; Weinberg 1992; Wilson 1998
44. See Stefan Collini, "Introduction to The Two Cultures," ed. C. P. Snow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998); Lepenies 1988
45. See Noretta Koertege, ed., A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodern Myths About Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
46. Paul Gross and Norman Levitt, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994)
47. Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (New York: Picador, 1999)
48. For discussion see Peter Singer, A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 24-28
49. See, for instance, Wilson 1978, 1998; Del Thiesen and Yoko Umezawa, "The Sociobiology of Everyday Life," Human Nature 9 (1998): 293-320
50. Robin Fox, "Sexual Conflict in the Epics," Human Nature 6 (1995): 135-44
51. Greg Ellis and Donald Symons, "Sex Differences in Sexual Fantasy: An Evolutionary Psychological Approach," Journal of Sex Research 27 (1990): 490-521; Gottschall 2004, forthcoming
52. Dennett 1995
53. See, for instance, Lionel Stevenson, Darwin Among the Poets (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1932)