Music as a trait in evolutionary theory: A musicological perspective

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x20001193 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 44 ◽

Author(s):

Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann ◽

Lara Pearson ◽

Tina Roeske ◽

Christian Grüny ◽

Rainer Polak

Keyword(s):

Evolutionary Theory ◽

Historical Context ◽

Physical Traits

Abstract Although it can be straightforward to define the features of physical traits, complex cultural categories tend to elude widely accepted definitions that transcend cultural and historical context. Addressing papers by Mehr et al. and Savage et al., which both aim to explain music as an evolved trait, we discuss fundamental problems that arise from their conceptualizations of music.

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THE PHILLIPS CURVE AND AN ASSUMED UNIQUE MACROECONOMIC EQUILIBRIUM IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT

Journal of the History of Economic Thought ◽

10.1017/s1053837215000863 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 415-429 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Richard G. Lipsey

Keyword(s):

Evolutionary Theory ◽

Inflation Targeting ◽

Phillips Curve ◽

Full Employment ◽

Historical Context ◽

Unique Equilibrium ◽

Natural Rate ◽

Natural Rate Of Unemployment ◽

Wide Range ◽

Current Behavior

An early post-WWII debate concerned the most desirable demand and inflationary pressures at which to run the economy. Context was provided by Keynesian theory devoid of a full employment equilibrium and containing its mainly forgotten, but still relevant, microeconomic underpinnings. A major input came with the estimates provided by the original Phillips curve. The debate seemed to be rendered obsolete by the curve’s expectations-augmented version with its natural rate of unemployment, and associated unique equilibrium GDP, as the only values consistent with stable inflation. The current behavior of economies with the successful inflation targeting is inconsistent with this natural-rate view, but is consistent with evolutionary theory in which economies have a wide range of GDP-compatible stable inflation. Now the early post-WWII debates are seen not to be as misguided as they appeared to be when economists came to accept the assumptions implicit in the expectations-augmented Phillips curve.

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Timothy H. Lim et al. (eds), The Dead Sea Scrolls in Their Historical Context (Edinburgh: T. T. Clark, 2000), pp. x + 309. 24.95 (hb).

Scottish Journal of Theology ◽

10.1017/s0336930602260182 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 55 (1) ◽

pp. 113-126

Author(s):

Simon Gathercole

Keyword(s):

Historical Context ◽

Dead Sea Scrolls ◽

Dead Sea ◽

The Dead

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Psychology as a Profession and a Science

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040/a000088 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 111-117 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Ype H. Poortinga ◽

Ingrid Lunt

Keyword(s):

European Association ◽

Historical Context ◽

Professional Psychologists

The European Association of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA) was created in 1981 as the European Association of Professional Psychologists’ Associations (EFPPA). We show that Shakespeare’s dictum “What’s in a name?” does not apply here and that the loss of the “first P” (the adjectival “professional”) was resisted for almost two decades and experienced by many as a serious loss. We recount some of the deliberations preceding the change and place these in a broader historical context by drawing parallels with similar developments elsewhere. Much of the argument will refer to an underlying controversy between psychology as a science and the practice of psychology, a controversy that is stronger than in most other sciences, but nevertheless needs to be resolved.

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