On the Use of Parsimony in Archaeological Reasoning
(with Sam Lin and Alex Mackay). American Antiquity, forthcoming
Four Heuristics for Theory Selection in Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology
(with Anton Killin). Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, forthcoming
How to Ride a Bike How to ride a bike: rigidity vs flexibility in the cultural evolution of techniques.
Review of Charbonneau, M. (Ed.) ‘The Evolution of Techniques’” Philosophy of Science, forthcoming.
Expanding the Causal Menu: An Interventionist Perspective on Explaining Human Behavioral Evolution
Planer RJ, Pain R. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2024;6:e39. doi:10.1017/ehs.2024.27
Memes
Schlaile, M.P., Veit, W., & Boudry, M. (2024). In K. Dopfer, R.R. Nelson, J. Potts, & A. Pyka (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Economics. London: Routledge, pp. 235-248. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429398971-20
Past Material, Past Minds: The Philosophy of Cognitive Paleoanthropology
Currie, A., Killin, A., Lequin, M., & Pain, R.
Philosophy Compass, 19(6), e13001 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.13001
Teleosemantics, Structural Resemblance and Predictive Processing
Pain, R. & Mann, S, F. Erkenntnis (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-024-00819-2
Cognitive Archaeology Meets Cultural Evolutionary Psychology
Pain, R. (2024) in Karenleigh A. Overmann, and Frederick L. Coolidge (eds), Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology, Oxford Library of Psychology (2024)