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The Two Kinds of Empathy (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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Evolutionary Psychology

The book is based on William James' principles of psychology, which were written in 1890. Do you get into evolutionary psychology explicitly? I don't have a chapter like this is evolutionary psychology because I actually think evolutionary psychology is too important for that. So the book is kind of assuming all along that the mind is a thing designed by natural selection and that that is evident in the books.

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