Commentaries and responses

2024

John Sutton. Late Pleistocene skill domains. Commentary on Kim Sterelny and Peter Hiscock, ‘Cumulative culture, archaeology, and the zone of latent solutions’. Current Anthropology 65 (1), 39-41.

2023

John Sutton. Individuals for anti-individualists. Commentary on Dengso and Kirchhoff, ‘Beyond individual-centred 4E cognition: systems biology and sympoiesis’. Constructivist Foundations 18 (3), 374-376.

2019

Penny van Bergen and John Sutton. Sociocultural memory development research drives new directions in gadgetry science. Commentary on Cecilia Heyes, ‘Précis of Cognitive Gadgets: the cultural evolution of thinking’, Behavioral & Brain Sciences 42, 39-40.

2016

Amanda J. Barnier, Celia B. Harris, and John Sutton. The hows and whys of ‘we’ (and ‘I’) in groups. Commentary on Baumeister, Ainsworth, & Vohs, ‘Are Groups More or Less than the Sum of their Members? The moderating role of individual identification’ Behavioral & Brain Sciences 39.

2014

John Sutton. Central and peripheral perspectives in autobiographical memory. Hagar: studies in culture, polity, and identities 12, 163-164. Special issue: Memory and Periphery.

John Sutton. Commentary on Mette Løvschal, ‘Emerging Boundaries: social embedment of landscape and settlement divisions in Northwestern Europe during the first millennium BC’. Current Anthropology 55 (6), 725-750, at pp.744-745.

Georg Theiner and John Sutton. The collaborative emergence of group cognition. Commentary on Smaldino, ‘The cultural evolution of emergent group-level traits’. Behavioral & Brain Sciences 37 (3), 277-278.

2012

John Sutton and Evelyn B. Tribble. Traffickers in transformation: reply to Hawkes. Early Modern Culture: an electronic seminar 9 (online journal).

2009

John Sutton. Adaptive misbeliefs and false memories. Commentary on McKay & Dennett, ‘The Evolution of Misbelief’. Behavioral & Brain Sciences 32 (6), 535-536.

2000

John Sutton. How to connect with the past: author’s response. Symposium on Philosophy and Memory Traces. Metascience, 9 (2), 226-237.

1999

John Sutton. The Churchlands’ neuron doctrine: both cognitive and reductionist. Commentary on Gold and Stoljar, ‘A neuron doctrine in the philosophy of neuroscience’. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 22, 850-851.