On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:51:53 -0700, Sally Walters wrote:
Does anyone know who first coined this term?
It appears that the first use of the *term* as we understand today was
in the following:
Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (1994). Beyond intuition and instinct
blindness: Toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science.
Cognition, 50(1), 41-77.
However, the *concept* that Cosmides & Tooby are referring to
goes back to William James. See their website for their review of the
history of the concept; see:
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/EP-primer.html
A general search of sources turns up few instances of the term before
1994 though Kohler appears to use the term "blindness of instinct" in
his 1951 book "The Mentality of Apes" (page 207). The book is
available on books.google.com but only in "snippet" form (i.e., a
tiny portion is displayed). If someone has a copy handy, they might
check to see if the phrase is there and whether it matches Cosmides
& Tooby's definition (they do not refer to Kohler on their website
or in their 1994 article).
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
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