caa a22 4500 463161238 CHVBK 20180406164748.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10746-007-9063-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10746-007-9063-8 Suplizio Jean 6260 William Edgar Drive, 22310, Alexandria, VA, USA aut On the Significance of William James to a Contemporary Doctrine of Evolutionary Psychology [Elektronische Daten] [Jean Suplizio] Academic popularizers of the new field of evolutionary psychology make notable appeals to William James to bolster their doctrine. In particular, they cite James' remark that humans have all the "impulses” animals do and many more besides to shore up their claim that people's "instincts” account for their flexibility. This essay argues that these scholars misinterpret James on the instincts. Consciousness (which they find inscrutable) explains cognitive flexibility for James. The evolutionary psychologists' appeal to James is, therefore, unwarranted and, given the conditions relevant to the public and professional audiences they address, also ineffective as a rhetorical tool for enlisting new recruits. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2007 Evolutionary psychology nationallicence William James nationallicence Instincts nationallicence Consciousness nationallicence Cognitive flexibility nationallicence Human Studies Springer Netherlands 30/4(2007-12-01), 357-375 0163-8548 30:4<357 2007 30 10746 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-007-9063-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-007-9063-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Suplizio Jean 6260 William Edgar Drive, 22310, Alexandria, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Studies Springer Netherlands 30/4(2007-12-01), 357-375 0163-8548 30:4<357 2007 30 10746 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer