Vol 2.2, Fall 2018

Edited by

Joseph Carroll
University of Missouri, St. Louis

Mathias Clasen
Aarhus University

Emelie Jonsson
University of Gothenburg

Articles

Religion, Evolution, and the Basis of Institutions: The Institutional Cognition Model of Religion

Connor Wood, John H. Shaver

Aesthetics and Fetishism: Key Stimuli and Power Objects

Henrik Høgh-Olesen

Evocative Advocates and Stirring Statesmen: Law, Politics, and the Weaponization of Imagery

Carlton Patrick

Evolutionary Perspectives and Popular Culture: State of the Art

Catherine Salmon

“The Mind, the Helpless Mind”: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychological Preoccupations in the Poetry of Stephen Dunn

Judith P. Saunders

A Tale of Two Species: The Origins of Art and the Neanderthal Challenge

Eveline Seghers

Review Essays

Get Shorty: Steven Pinker on the Enlightenment

Geoffrey Galt Harpham

Book Reviews

Maarten Boudry and Massimo Pigliucci. Science Unlimited? The Challenges of Scientism

Reviewed by Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen

Robert Boyd. A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species

Reviewed by Thomas J. H. Morgan

Antonio Damasio. The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

Reviewed by Shimon Edelman

Gregory J. Feist, Roni Reiter-Palmon, and James C. Kaufman. The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Personality Research

Reviewed by Aaron Kozbelt

Helen Fisher. Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray

Reviewed by Liana S. E. Hone

Angela D. Friederici. Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity

Reviewed by Philip Lieberman

Yuval Harari. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Reviewed by Daniel Helsing

Beth Lau, ed. Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind

Reviewed by Brian Boyd

Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe, eds. Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years

Reviewed by Christopher Kavanagh

Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber. The Enigma of Reason