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The conundrum of modern art: Prestige driven coevolutionary aesthetics trumps evolutionary aesthetics among art experts KU Leuven University of Antwerp
Two major mechanisms of aesthetic evolution have been suggested. One focuses on naturally selected preferences (Evolutionary Aesthetics), while the other implies coevolution between preferences and traits (Coevolutionary Aesthetics). Signaling theory suggests that expertise moderates these mechanisms. Here we verify this in the domain of art and employ it to elucidate Western modern art’s deviation from naturally selected preferences. We argue ...
Evolutionary toxicology : meta-analysis of evolutionary events in response to chemical stressors Ghent University
Methodology in the evolutionary study of art : perspectives in philosophical anthropology, cognitive archaeology, and evolutionary theory Ghent University
The extended evolutionary synthesis facilitates evolutionary models of culture Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Law and the Evolutionary Turn: The Relevance of Evolutionary Psychology for Legal Positivism KU Leuven
Philosophy as evolutionary biology? The structure and significance of evolutionary explanations in philosophy University of Antwerp
Thomas S. Kuhn : key to a better understanding of the extended evolutionary synthesis Ghent University
In recent years, some scholars have explicitly questioned the desirability or utility of applying the classical and "old-fashioned" theories of scientific change by the likes of Karl Popper and Thomas S. Kuhn to the question of the precise nature and significance of the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES). Supposedly, these twentieth-century philosophers are completely irrelevant for a better understanding of this new theoretical framework for ...
What’s wrong with the modern evolutionary synthesis? A critical reply to Welch (2017) Ghent University
Welch (Biol Philos 32(2):263–279, 2017) has recently proposed two possible explanations for why the field of evolutionary biology is plagued by a steady stream of claims that it needs urgent reform. It is either seriously deficient and incapable of incorporating ideas that are new, relevant and plausible or it is not seriously deficient at all but is prone to attracting discontent and to the championing of ideas that are not very relevant, ...
Intention Recognition, Commitments and Their Roles in the Evolution of Cooperation: From Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Evolutionary Game Theory Models Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This original and timely monograph describes a unique self-contained excursion that reveals to the readers the roles of two basic cognitive abilities, i.e. intention recognition and arranging commitments, in the evolution of cooperative behavior. This book analyses intention recognition, an important ability that helps agents predict others' behavior, in its artificial intelligence and evolutionary computational modeling aspects, and proposes a ...