Publications

ORCID: 0000-0002-6523-5471

Papers with peer review process (starred items have won awards):

  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2025). Beyond Minimalism: Why Objectivity Matters For Metaethical Moral Realism. Philosophical Psychology: 1–23. doi: 10.1080/09515089.2025.2546502. Available online here.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2024). Thresholds of Human Cooperation: Constructing the Developmental Niche of Shared Intentionality. Biology and Philosophy 39(36): 1-29. doi:10.1007/s10539-024-09969-7. Available online here.
  • González, D. L., Gonzalez-Cabrera, I., & Herrera, D. D. (2024). Rally-Based Performance Evaluation Model for Highly Competitive Volleyball. https://doi.org/10.51224/SRXIV.452.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2022). A lineage explanation of human normative guidance: the adaptive model of instrumental rationality and shared intentionality. Synthese 200(493): 1-23. doi:10.1007/s11229-022-03925-2. Available online here.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I., Herrera, D. D., & González, D. L. (2020). Generalized Model For Scores in Volleyball Games, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. doi:10.1515/jqas-2019-0060. Available online here.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2019). On social tolerance and the evolution of human normative guidance. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 70(2): 523-549. doi:10.1093/bjps/axx017. Available online here.
  • Schwitzgebel, E., Huang, L. T.-L., Higgins, A., Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2018). The Insularity of Anglophone Philosophy: Quantitative Analyses. Philosophical Papers 47(1): 21-48. doi:10.1080/05568641.2018.1429741. Available online here.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2017). Moving beyond dichotomies. Biology & Philosophy. doi:10.1007/s10539-017-9590-2. Available online here.
  • Tomasello, M. & Gonzalez-Cabrera, I.* (2017). The role of ontogeny in the evolution of human cooperation. Human Nature 28(3): 274-288. doi:10.1007/s12110-017-9291-1. Available online here. Springer-Nature’s Change the World, One Article at a Time Award in the Biomedicine and Life Sciences.
  • Schmidt, M. F. H., Gonzalez-Cabrera, I., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Children’s developing metaethical judgments. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 164: 163-177. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.07.008. Available online here.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2008). The problem of the evolution of biological altruism [El problema de la evolución del altruismo biológico]. Proceedings of the 2nd Colombian Congress of Philosophy. Cartagena: Colombian Society of Philosophy & University of Cartagena, 1203-1215. Available online here.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2005). The logic of natural selection and the discussion about the scientific status of adaptationism [La lógica de la selección natural y la discusión sobre el estatuto científico del adaptacionismo]. Saga 11: 83-102. Available online here.

Book chapters:

  • Tomasello, M. & Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2025). How to Build a Normative Creature. In C. Peacocke & P. Boghossian (eds.), New Essays on Normative Realism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 293-317. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198915140.003.0014. Available online here.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2018). Peer competition and cooperation. In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer: New York, NY. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_154-1. Available online here.

Book reviews:

  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2020). Michael Tomasello, Becoming human: a theory of ontogeny, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019, xi + 379 pp, $35.00/£28.95/€31.50. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 42(4): 48 doi:10.1007/s40656-020-00335-w. Available online here.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2020). Cecilia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018, ix + 292 pp., $31.50/£25.95/€28.50. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 42(2): 13. doi:10.1007/s40656-020-00306-1. Available online here.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2020). The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve. By Steve Stewart-Williams. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $27.95. xii + 368 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-1-108-42504-9. 2018. The Quarterly Review of Biology 95(2): 150. doi:10.1086/709061. Available online here.

Selected work in progress:

  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I., Altinok, N., Anderson, L., & Schmidt, M. F. H.: The Influence of Sociocultural Distance and Political Orientation on Folk Moral Objectivism and Relativism. Draft manuscript available online here.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I., & Huang, L. T. Perceived joint epistemic agency and belief stabilization in human–LLM exchange. Draft manuscript available online here.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. Moral externalization and the conditions of cooperation. Draft manuscript available online here.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. Justificatory burden and the cultural evolution of punishment-admission practices. Draft manuscript available online here.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. Association and selection in the evolutionary maintenance of folk metaethical dispositions. Draft manuscript available online here.

Monographs:

  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2016): Sharing our normative worlds: A theory of normative thinking, PhD Thesis. ACT: Australian National University. Available online here.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2008). A multilevel selection theory as explanation of cooperation by policing and punishment [Una teoría de selección multinivel como explicación de la cooperación por vigilancia y castigo], MPhil Thesis. Bogota: National University of Colombia. Available online here.
  • Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2005): The problem of the units of selection [El problema de las unidades de selección], BA Thesis. Bogota: National University of Colombia.

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