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Robert C. Richardson
Researcher at University of Cincinnati
Publications - 51
Citations - 2126
Robert C. Richardson is an academic researcher from University of Cincinnati. The author has contributed to research in topics: Evolutionary psychology & Reductionism. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 51 publications receiving 2046 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert C. Richardson include University of Chicago & University of Osnabrück.
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Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research
TL;DR: In a substantive new introduction to this MIT Press edition of Discovering Complexity, Bechtel and Richardson examine both philosophical and scientific developments in research on mechanistic models since 1993.
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Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology
TL;DR: In Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology, Robert Richardson takes a critical look at evolutionary psychology by subjecting its ambitious and controversial claims to the same sorts of methodological and evidential constraints that are broadly accepted within evolutionary biology.
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Darwin in Mind: New Opportunities for Evolutionary Psychology
TL;DR: It is argued that the key tenets of the established EP paradigm require modification in the light of recent findings from a number of disciplines, including human genetics, evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, and paleoecology.
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Emergence and Its Place in Nature: A Case Study of Biochemical Networks
TL;DR: It is shown in an explicit case study drawn from molecular cell physiology that biochemical networks display this kind of emergence, even though they deploy only mechanistic explanations, which illustrates emergence and its place in nature.
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Functionalism and Reductionism
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that functionalist constraints on psychology do not preclude the applicability of classic forms of reduction and therefore do not support claims to a principled, or de facto, autonomy of psychology.