Biography:Susan Oyama
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Short description: American philosopher
Susan Oyama (born May 22, 1943)[1] is a psychologist and philosopher of science, currently professor emerita at the John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center in New York City .[2]
Oyama's work interrogates the nature versus nurture debates, and problematizes the conceptual foundations (e.g., assumptions, binaries, and classifications) on which these debates depend. Her notion of a "developmental system" allows us to reevaluate and reintegrate standard dichotomies such as development and evolution, body and mind, and stasis and change. Oyama's Developmental systems theory has had a significant impact in cognitive science, psychology, and the philosophy of biology.
Publications
- The Ontogeny of Information (2000)
- Cycles of Contingency (2001)
- Evolution's Eye: A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide (2000)
- The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution is regarded as a foundational text in developmental systems theory[3]
See also
- Epigenetics
- Evo-devo
- Modern evolutionary synthesis
References
- ↑ "Oyama, Susan". http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85092790.html.
- ↑ "John Jay College". Academia.edu. https://jjay-cuny.academia.edu/SusanOyama. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
- ↑ "Susan Oyama Bibliography". The American School in Japan. http://www.asij.ac.jp/japan/asij_authors/m_o/oyama.htm.
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