Susan Oyama

Susan Oyama is a psychologist and philosopher of science, currently professor emerita at the John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.^[1]

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

Publications

• The Ontogeny of Information (2000)
• Cycles of Contingency (2001)
• Evolution's Eye: A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide (2000)
• The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution is regarded as a foundational text in developmental systems theory^[2]

See also

• Epigenetics
• Evo-devo
• Modern evolutionary synthesis

References

1. "John Jay College". Academia.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
2. "Susan Oyama Bibliography". The American School in Japan. Archived from the original on September 26, 2008. Retrieved 2010-01-30.