Inferring and Explaining

47 QuIz fIVe On July 20, 2013, an article appeared in the New York Times arguing that female family mem- bers can make males more generous. Here’s a link to the article: https://www.nytimes.com/ 2013/07/21/opinion/sunday/why-men-need-women.html. Use all the steps in the IBE recipe to assess the quality of evidence for the claim that “the mere presence of female family members—even infants—can be enough to nudge men in the generous direction.” Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (New York: Simon & Schus- Notes ter, 1995), 390. 1 G. Harman, “Te Inference to the Best Explanation,” 4 Jefery L. Johnson and Joyclynn Potter, “Te Argu- Philosophical Review 74, no. 1 (1965): 89. ment from Language and the Existence of God,” 2 Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom, “Natural Language Journal of Religion 85, no. 1 (January 2005). and Natural Selection,” in Te Adapted Mind , ed. 5 Johnson and Potter, 84. Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, and John Toby 6 Peter van Inwagen, Te Problem of Evil (New York: (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 451. Oxford University Press, 2006), 44. 3 Stephen J. Gould, “Tires to Sandals,” Natural His- tory , April 1989, 8–15, quoted in Daniel C. Dennett, InferenCe to the Best exPlanatIon