David Spurrett

University of KwaZulu-Natal — South Africa

Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences

19h-index3.0kcitations89works5.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Philosophy and History of Science(24), Embodied and Extended Cognition(16), Philosophy and Theoretical Science(13), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(10), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics(8)

Publications89 total

Introduction: Scaffolding Bad - Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm
Topoi·2025· 7 citedOpen Access
The priority of preferences in the evolution of minds
South African Journal of Philosophy·2025Open Access
Manipulating the Scaffolded Agent
Philosophy of engineering and technology·2025
Postcard from inside the black box
Behavioral and Brain Sciences·2025
On Hostile and Oppressive Affective Technologies
Topoi·2024· 21 citedOpen Access
Fashioning affordances: a critical approach to clothing as an affordance transforming technology
Philosophical Psychology·2023· 9 cited
Hostile Scaffolding
Philosophical Papers·2023· 58 cited
Complexity, Valence, and Consciousness
Biological Theory·2022· 4 cited
Hooray for Babies1
2022
Evolving resolve
Behavioral and Brain Sciences·2021· 3 cited
Evolving Resolve
2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Abstracting reward
Behavioral and Brain Sciences·2020
Representing utility and deploying the body
Behavioral and Brain Sciences·2020
The Descent of Preferences
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science·2019· 17 cited
Common Currencies, Multiple Systems and Risk Cognition: Evolutionary Trade-offs and the Problem of Efficient Choices
Journal of Cognition and Culture·2016· 1 cited
Robots in casinos: Distributed control and the problem of efficient action selection
South African Journal of Philosophy·2016
Does intragenomic conflict predict intrapersonal conflict?
Biology & Philosophy·2016· 4 cited
Physicalism as an empirical hypothesis
Synthese·2015· 9 cited
The Natural History of Desire
South African Journal of Philosophy·2015· 5 cited
Predictors of peri-operative risk acceptance by South African vascular surgery patients at a tertiary level hospital
Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia·2015· 6 citedOpen Access
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Don Ross(12), Carla Sharp(5), Stephen J. Cowley(5), Andrew Dellis(4), Andre Hofmeyr(3), James Ladyman(3), John Collier(3), David Papineau(2), Rudy E. Vuchinich(2), Harold Kincaid(2), Jacques Rousseau(2), P. Cilliers(1), Ryan Gary Timms(1), Gemma Stephens(1), Michael Meadon(1), Peter M Schwardmann(1), Nick Brancazio(1), Peter L. Collins(1), Dan J. Stein(1), Adele Pretorius(1)