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More obstacles on the road to unification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2007

Eric Alden Smith
Eric Alden Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3100. [email protected]://faculty.washington.edu/easmith/
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Abstract

The synthesis proposed by Gintis is valuable but insufficient. Greater consideration must be given to epistemological diversity within the behavioral sciences, to incorporating historical contingency and institutional constraints on decision-making, and to vigorously testing deductive models of human behavior in real-world contexts.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 41
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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