Dr Carl Brusse
PhD, MA, BA(hons), BSc
Research Associate
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- History And Philosophy Of Science (Incl. Non Historical Philosophy Of Science) 220206
Research interests
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Medicine
Cultural evolution
Evolution of individuality, cooperation, norms
Publications
- Brusse, C, Handfield, T & Zollman, K 2022, 'Explaining costly religious practices: credibility enhancing displays and signaling theories', Synthese, vol. 200, no. 249, p. 249.
- Brusse, C 2022, 'From the inside looking out', Metascience, vol. 31, no. (2), pp. 273-276.
- Killin, A, Brusse, C, Currie, A et al. 2021, 'Not by signalling alone: Music's mosaicism undermines the search for a proper function behavioral and Brain Sciences', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 44, no. 2021, pp. 121-123.
- Brusse, C 2021, 'The Archaeology and Philosophy of Health: Navigating the New Normal Problem', in Anton Killin, Sean Allen-Hermanson (ed.), Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland, pp. 101 -122.
- Brusse, C 2020, 'Manipulation and Dishonest Signals', in Todd K Shackelford & Viviana A Weekes-Shackelford (ed.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Switzerland, pp. 4765 - 4768.
- Brusse, C & Sterelny, K 2020, 'Religion and its evolution: signals, norms, and secret histories', Religion, Brain & Behavior, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 217-222.
- Brusse, C 2020, 'Animal Signalling', in Todd K Shackelford & Viviana A Weekes-Shackelford (ed.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Switzerland, pp. 297 - 301.
- Brown, R, Brusse, C, Huebner, B et al 2020, 'Unification at the cost of realism and precision', Behavioural Brain Research, vol. 43, no. 95, pp. 27-28.
- Brusse, C. (2020) ‘Signaling theories of religion: models and explanation’, Religion, Brain & Behavior. Routledge, 10(3), pp. 272–291. doi: 10.1080/2153599X.2019.1678514.
- Brusse, C & Sterelny, K 2019, 'The Philosophy of Social Evolution by Jonathan Birch. Reviewed by Brusse & Sterelny', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. online.
- Brusse, C 2019, 'Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking by Cecilia Heyes. Reviewed by Brusse, Carl.', The Quarterly Review of Biology, vol. 94, no. 2, p. 231.
- Brusse, C 2019, Modelling Religious Signalling.
- Brusse, C 2018, 'Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion. By E. Fuller Torrey.', The Quarterly Review of Biology, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 251-252.
- Brusse, C & Sterelny, K 2018, 'Moral externalisation fails to scale', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 41.
- Brusse, C & Bruner, J 2017, 'Responsiveness and robustness in the david lewis signaling game', Philosophy of Science, vol. 84, no. 5, pp. 1068-1079.
- Bruner, J, Brusse, C & Kalkman, D 2017, 'Cost, expenditure and vulnerability', Biology and Philosophy, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 357-375.
- Brusse, C 2017, 'Making do without selection - Review essay of "Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges" by Tim Lewens', Biology and Philosophy, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 307-319.
- Brusse, C 2016, 'Planets, pluralism, and conceptual lineage', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol. 53, pp. 93-106.
- Brusse, C, Gardner, K, McAullay, D et al 2014, 'Social media and mobile apps for health promotion in Australian indigenous populations: Scoping review', Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 56-70.
- Brusse, C & Yen, L 2013, 'Preferences, predictions and patient enablement: a preliminary study', BMC Family Practice Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 116-116.