The Organization of Human Experience: An Evolutionary Analysis

How an evolutionary psychology of agency explains dimensions of human behavior and experience overlooked by the computational model of mind.

Modern cognitive science is dominated by a mind-as-computer model that pays scant attention to the evolutionary history via which human psychological processes came into existence. It thus struggles to explain why human psychology and experience are the way they are. In The Organization of Human Experience, Michael Tomasello seeks to fill this explanato...