Publications
cultural evolution | cultural diversity | cognition and cognitive evolution | evolutionary theory | misc.
Cultural Evolution
Fredrik Jansson, Andrew Buskell, and Magnus Enquist. Online First. Cultural Systems. In Jamie Tehrani, Rachel Kendal and Jeremy Kendal (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. (Link)
Tim Lewens and Andrew Buskell. 2023. Cultural Evolution. In Ed Zalta (ed.) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Summer 2023 Edition). (Open Access)
Andrew Buskell. 2022. Cumulative Culture and Complex Cultural Traditions. Mind & Language, 37(3): 284-303. (pre-print)
Andrew Buskell. 2020. Normativity, social change, and the epistemological framing of culture. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 43:e96. (Link)
Andrew Buskell, Fredrick Jansson, and Magnust Enquist. 2019. A Systems Approach to Cultural Evolution. Palgrave Communications, 5(131). (Open Access)
Andrew Buskell. 2019. Looking for middle ground in Cultural Attraction Theory. Evolutionary Anthropology, 28(1), 14 – 17. (Link)
Andrew Buskell. 2018. Causes of Cultural Disparity: Switches, Tuners, and the Cognitive Science of Religion. Philosophical Psychology, 31(8), 1239 – 1264. (Link)
Andrew Buskell. 2017. Cultural Attractor Theory and Explanation. Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 9(13), 1 – 20. (Open Access)
Andrew Buskell. 2017. What are cultural attractors? Biology & Philosophy, 32(3), 377-394 (Open Access)
Cultural Diversity
Andrew Buskell. Forthcoming. Cultural Lineages and the Ranking Problem. Analysis.
Andrew Buskell. 2024. Cultural Ecology in the Court: Ontology, Harm, and Scientific Practice. Journal of Social Ontology, 10(2): 24–50. (Open Access)
Andrew Buskell. 2023. Demographic Cultures and Demographic Skepticism. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 14: 477–496. (Open Access)
Cognition and the Evolution of Cognition
Andrew Buskell and Mathieu Charbonneau. Online First. Fidelity, stances, and explaining cultural stability. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. (Link)
Andrew Buskell and Claudio Tennie. Online First. Mere Recurrence and Cumulative Culture at the Margins. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. (Pre-Print Version)
Andrew Buskell. 2021. Cognitive Novelties, Informational Form, and Structural-Causal Explanations. Synthese. (Open Access)
Corina J Logan, Shahar Avin, Neeltje Boogert, Andrew Buskell, Fiona R Cross, Adrian Currie, Sarah Jelbert, Dieter Lukas, Rafael Mares, Ana F Navarette, Shuichi Shigeno, and Stephen H Montgomery. 2018. Beyond Brain Size: Uncovering the Neural Correlates of Behavioral and Cognitive Specialization. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 13, 55 – 90. (With commentaries and a response) (Open Access)
Andrew Buskell and Marta Halina. 2018. Domains of Generality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, e200, 28 (Link)
Andrew Buskell. 2015. How to be Skilful: Opportunistic Robustness and Normative Sensitivity. Synthese, 192(5), 1445 – 1466. (Link)
Evolutionary Theory
James Borg, Andrew Buskell, Rohan Kapitany, Simon Powers, Eva Reindl, and Claudio Tennie. Forthcoming. Evolved Open-Endedness in Cultural Evolution: A New Dimension in Open-Ended Evolution Research. Artificial Life
Andrew Buskell and Adrian Currie. 2021. Uniqueness in the Life Sciences: How Did the Elephant Get Its Trunk? Biology & Philosophy, 36:37 (Open Access)
Andrew Buskell. 2020. Synthesising Arguments and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C, 80: 101244. (Link)
Andrew Buskell. 2019. Reciprocal Causation and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. Biological Theory, 14(4): 267-279. (Open Access)
Essay Reviews, Commentaries, and Miscellanea
Andrew Buskell, Edwin Etieyibo, Catherine Kendig, Raphael Uchôa, and Robert A Wilson. 2023. How to think with the Global South. Philosophy of Science, 90(1): 209–217. (Open Access)
Jonathan Birch and Andrew Buskell. 2022. How we got stuck: the origins of hierarchy and inequality. Mind & Language, 37(4): 751-759 (Open Access Essay Review of The Pleistocene Social Contract by Kim Sterelny with a response by the author)
Andrew Buskell. 2021. Evolution, Cultural Evolution, and Epistemic Optimism. Acta Biotheoretica, 69(2): 73-183. (Essay review of Hugo Mercier’s Not Born Yesterday and Alberto Acerbi’s Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age) (Link)
Andrew, Buskell. 2019. Maria Kronfeldner: What’s Left of Human Nature? A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept.’ International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 32(2): 137-140.(Link)
Andrew Buskell and Adrian Currie. 2018. Forces, Friction, and Fractionation: Denis Walsh’s Organisms, Agency and Evolution. Biology and Philosophy, 32(6): 1341-1353. (Open Access)
Andrew Buskell. 2016. Cultural longevity: Morin on cultural lineages.’ Biology & Philosophy, 31(3), 435-446.(Link)