Literary universals and the sciences of the mind

Philosophy and Literature

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 202-217

  Gottschall, Jonathan ^a  

^a ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60950431247     PISSN: 01900013     EISSN: 1086329X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/phl.2004.0008     Document Type: Note

References (14)

1. For a sample of this work see Joseph Carroll, Evolution and Literary Theory (St. Louis: University of Missouri Press, 1994)
2. Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson, eds. Literature and the Human Animal (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, in press)
3. Mark Turner, The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
4. See also special issues of Philosophy and Literature 25.2 (2001)
5. "Darwin and Literary Theory"; Human Nature 15 (2004)
6. Poetics Today 24 (2003)
7. These developments are summarized in Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (New York: Viking Books, 2002)
8. For an introduction to evolutionary hypothesis testing see Ernst Mayr, What Evolution Is (New York: Basic Books, 2002)
9. See, for example, David Sloan Wilson, Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998)
10. Matt Ridley, The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation (New York: Penguin, 1998)
11. Frans De Waal, Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997)
12. Peter Singer, A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000)
13. See Donald Brown, Human Universals (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991)
14. Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1998), p. 148