Beyond trial-and-error in a selectionist psychology From: Behavior and Philosophy | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Cleaveland, J M | Copyright Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

ABSTRACT: A common criticism of a selectionist psychology is that the mechanism of overt behavioral variability and environmental selection cannot account for instances of seemingly novel, intelligent behavior. However, behavioral novelty is quite easily accounted for in much the same manner as it is in phylogenetic selection-through an appreciation of historicity. Nonetheless, the issue of novelty is closely related to another issue that is problematic for a selectionist psychology, namely t...

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