The Evolution of Agency and Other Essays

Part I. Overview: 1. Evolution and agency: a user's guide Part II. Replication and Interaction: 2. Return of the gene (with Philip Kitcher) 3. The gxtended replicator (with Kelly Smith and Mike Dickison) 4. The return of the group Part III. Evolution and Macroevolution: 5. Punctuated equilibrium and macroevolution 6. Explanatory pluralism in evolutionary biology 7. Darwin's tangled bank Part IV. The Descent of the Mind: 8. Where does thinking come from? A commentary on Peter Godfrey Smith's Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature 9. Basic minds 10. Intentional agency and the metarepresentation hypothesis 11. Situated agency and the descent of desire 12. The evolution of agency.