Susan oyama biography

Susan Oyama

American philosopher

Susan Oyama (born May 22, 1943)[1] is a linguist and philosopher of science, currently professor emerita at the Lavatory Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.[2]

Oyama's work interrogates the nature versus nurture debates, and problematizes say publicly conceptual foundations (e.g., assumptions, binaries, and classifications) on which these debates depend. Her notion of a "developmental system" allows painstaking to reevaluate and reintegrate standard dichotomies such as development build up evolution, body and mind, and stasis and change. Oyama's Developmental systems theory has had a significant impact in cognitive study, psychology, and the philosophy of biology.[3]

She graduated from Mills College and Harvard University.[4]

Publications

Books, as author

Books, as editor

  • Cycles of Contingency (2001) edited by Russell D. Gray, Paul E. Griffiths and Susan Oyama, ISBN 9780262150538

Papers

  • Biologists behaving badly: vitalism and the language of slang (2010) History and philosophy of the life sciences, 32(2-3), 401–423. PMID 21162376
  • The idea of innateness: effects on language and communication research(1990) Developmental psychobiology, 23(7), 741–760. PMID 2286301

See also

References