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David J. Buller’s Representative Publications

Books

Authored: Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books, forthcoming in 2005.

Edited: Function, Selection, and Design. Albany, NY: SUNY Press (Series in Philosophy and Biology), 1999.

Articles and Book Chapters

“Function and Design Revisited.” In Functions: New Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology (pp. 222-243). Eds. André Ariew, Robert Cummins, and Mark Perlman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

“Evolutionary Psychology, Meet Developmental Neurobiology: Against Promiscuous Modularity” (with Valerie Gray Hardcastle). Brain and Mind 1 (2000): 307-325.

“DeFreuding Evolutionary Psychology: Adaptation and Human Motivation.” In Where Biology Meets Psychology: Philosophical Essays (pp. 99-114). Ed. Valerie Gray Hardcastle. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press/Bradford Books, 1999.

“Etiological Theories of Function: A Geographical Survey.” Biology and Philosophy 13 (1998): 505-527. (Reprinted in Function, Selection, and Design, pp. 281-306.)

“Individualism and Evolutionary Psychology (or: In Defense of ‘Narrow’ Functions).” Philosophy of Science 64 (1997): 74-95.