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15Development links psychological causes to evolutionary explanationsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (2): 142-143. 2014.Our conscious abilities are learned in environments that have evolved to support them. This insight provides an alternative way of framing Huang & Bargh's provocative hypothesis. To understand the conflict between unconscious goals and consciousness, we can study the emergence of conscious thought and control in childhood. These developmental processes are also central to the best available current evolutionary theories.
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13How Philosophy of Science Can Unlock New Methods in BioethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 22 (12): 51-53. 2022.Blumenthal-Barby and colleagues (2022) argue that philosophy continues to be relevant to bioethics. To support their argument, they offer several examples of how—not philosophy, exactly—but normati...
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4Nursing science as the study of how to reconcile behavioral messiness with clinical norms and idealsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 99 (C): 37-45. 2023.