Susan Oyama
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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.[3]
She graduated from Mills College and Harvard University.[4]
Personal life
She married the Italian composer Luciano Berio in 1966. They divorced in 1972.
Publications
Books, as author
- Evolution's Eye: A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide (2000), Template:ISBN
- The Ontogeny of Information (2000), originally published in 1985, and revised for republication, is regarded as a foundational text in developmental systems theory[5][6] Template:ISBN
Books, as editor
- Cycles of Contingency (2001) edited by Russell D. Gray, Paul E. Griffiths and Susan Oyama, Template:ISBN
Papers
- Biologists behaving badly: vitalism and the language of language (2010) History and philosophy of the life sciences, 32(2-3), 401–423. Template:Catalog lookup link
- The idea of innateness: effects on language and communication research(1990) Developmental psychobiology, 23(7), 741–760. Template:Catalog lookup link
See also
References
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