Online Publications

2022

The Making of Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Economics (2022; with Dennis J. Snower). Evonomics.com

The Vienna Circle and Pragmatist Clubs: Variation to Select from for Evolutionary Philosophy (2022; with Ed Gibney and Andy Norman). This View of Life

Evaluating Narratives of Conscious Evolution (2022). This View of Life

Constructing Prosocial Environments: The Parable of the Turtle (2022). This View of Life

Conscious Cultural Evolution Takes Root in Latin America (2022). This View of Life

Introducing the Prosocial Commons (2022). This View of Life

E.O. Wilson Saw the World in a Wholly New Way (2022). Nautilus 

The Six Legacies of Edward O. Wilson (2022). This View of Life

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection (2022) This View of Life

Prologue for the 12th Anniversary Edition

  1. Why It Is Needed
  2. The Original Problem
  3. Naïve Group Selectionism
  4. The Great Reckoning
  5. The Patriotic History of Individual Selection Theory
  6. Individualism
  7. Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: If You Make a Mess, Should You Clean It Up?

The Making of Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Economics

The Science of the Noosphere

Conscious Cultural Evolution Takes Root in Latin America

2021

The NHS Needs Atlas Hugged, not Atlas Shrugged (2021). RSA Journal

I Have Come to Bury Ayn Rand (2021) Nautilus

What Multilevel Selection Theory Tells Us About Free Speech (2021) Aeon

Agile as a Case Study of Cultural Multilevel Selection: A Conversation with Laurent Alt (2021) This View of Life

Stewarding the Cultural Evolution of Complex Systems: The Case of Regenerative Agriculture (with Nicholas Jordan)(2021) This View of Life

Greek Democracy as a Major Evolutionary Transition: A Conversation with Josiah Ober (2021) This View of Life

Evolutionary Science and Sociology: A Series of Conversations (2021) This View of Life

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Author Conversations (2021) This View of Life

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Past, Present, and Future (with Steven C. Hayes) (2021) This View of Life

Introducing Prosocial World to the World (2021) This View of Life

Turning Fiction Into Reality: A Conversation with Stuart Libman (2021) This View of Life

 

2020

Evolution, Complexity, and the Third Way of Entrepreneurship: A Series of Conversations (2020) This View of Life

Evolution, Complexity, and the Third Way of Entrepreneurship: Vision Statement (2020) This View of Life

Pragmatism and the Third Way (with Tryg Throntveit) (2020) This View of Life

Socialism, Capitalism, and the Third Way of National Governance (with Geoffrey Hodgson) (2020) This View of Life

Economics, Public Policy, and the Third Way (with David Colander) (2020) This View of Life

The Role of the Market in the Third Way of Entrepreneurship (with Peter Boettke) (2020) This View of Life

Smart Cities and the Third Way (with Daniel T. O

Brien)(2020) This View of Life

The Third Way in the Internet Age (with Tim O’Reilly) (2020) This View of Life

Development and the Third Way (with Scott Peterson) (2020) This View of Life

Ten Thousand Years of the Third Way: A Conversation with Peter Turchin (2020) This View of Life

The Nordic Third Way (with Nina Witoszek and Atle Midttun) (2020) This View of Life

The Third Way of Entrepreneurship (with Victor Hwang) (2020) This View of Life

Positive Deviance as the Third Way: A Conversation with David K. Hurst (2020) This View of Life

Advice to an Aspiring Economist: Introduction (2020) This View of Life

Debate: Nothing in Sociology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution (with Russell Schutt and Rengin Firat)(2020) This View of Life

The Cheating Cell: An Interview with Athena Aktipis (2020) This View of Life

Evolving the Future of Corporations: A Conversation with Toby Shannan (2020) This View of Life

The Cultural Evolution of Social Pathologies: Introduction to a Series of Essays by Anthony Biglan (2020) This View of Life

Dugnad as Part of Norway’s Culture of Cooperation: A Conversation with Carsta Simon and Hilde Mobekk (2020) This View of Life

Morality from an Evolutionary Perspective, with Simon Blackburn (2020) This View of Life

Ayn Rand Meets Her Match: David Sloan Wilson Fights Fiction With Fiction (2020) This View of Life

 

2019

Darwinizing the Federalist Papers (2019) This View of Life

The Origins of Multilevel Selection Theory (with Elliott Sober) (2019) This View of Life

Master Class: A Conversation with Jonathan Birch About the Equivalence of Theories of Social Evolution (2019) This View of Life

What Bret Weinstein Gets Wrong About Group Selection (2019) This View of Life

Group Selection in Every Way Except Using the Words. A Critique of “The Goodness Paradox” by Richard Wrangham (2019) This View of Life

Evolutionary Mismatch and What To Do About It: Introduction to a Series (with Anthony Basile and J. Brett Smith) (2019) This View of Life

Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures (2019) This View of Life

 

2018

Fighting for the Middle Ground: David Sloan Wilson Interviews Holly Dunsworth on the Ethics of Teaching Evolution (2018) This View of Life

Saving Social Constructivism (with Lynnette Shaw) (2018) This View of Life

Attention Teachers! How to Turn Your Classes into Prosocial Groups (2018) This View of Life

This View of Morality: Can an Evolutionary Perspective Reveal a Universal Morality?(with Mark Sloan and Michael Price) (2018) This View of Life

Was Darwin a Group Selectionist? A Conversation with Elliott Sober (2018) This View of Life

Systems Engineering as Cultural Group Selection: A Conversation with Guru Madhavan (2018) This View of Life

Punk Evolutionist: An Interview with Greg Graffin (2018) This View of Life

Evolving the New Economy: Tim O’Reilly and David Sloan Wilson (2018) Evonomics.com 

Humanizing Corporations: A Nobel Prize for Enlightened Business Leaders (with Per Saxegaard) (2018) Evonomics.com

A New Way to Think about Solving the World’s Biggest Problems (with John Bunzl and Nick Duffell) (2018) Evonomics.com

How To Construct A New Invisible Hand: A Conversation with Peter Barnes (2018) Evonomics.com

Why New Economics Needs a New Invisible Hand (2018) Evonomics.com

Science and Religion Need Not Be At War (2018) This View of Life

Learning from Religion About Social Cells (2018) This View of Life

 

2017

Reaching a New Plateau for the Acceptance of Multilevel Selection (2017) This View of Life

This View of Business: How Evolutionary Thinking Can Transform the Workplace (with Mark Van Vugt and Max Beilby) (2017) This View of Life

Learning from Arizona State University about Interdisciplinarity: A Conversation with Robert Boyd (2017) This View of Life

This View of History: A Conversation with Peter Turchin (2017) This View of Life

Learning from Evolution About Childhood Education: A Conversation with Peter Gray (2017) This View of Life

This View of Leadership: A Conversation with Mark van Vugt (2017) This View of Life

The Freemasons: Prosocial Groups of the Enlightenment Era: A Conversation with Margaret C. Jacob (2017) This View of Life

Orchestrating the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Research Project: An Interview with Tobias Uller (2017) This View of Life

Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Evolution: Tear Down This Wall! A Conversation with Robert Paul (2017) This View of Life

The Riddle—and the Range—of Art: Brian Boyd on the Evolution of the Arts from the Pleistocene to the Present (2017) This View of Life

Writing Evolution Into the Humanist Manifesto IV (2017) This View of Life

Evolutionary Religious Studies Come of Age (2017) This View of Life

How To Create Collective Intelligence (with Geoff Mulgan) (2017) Evonomics.com

How Hayek’s Evolutionary Theory Disproves His Politics (with Samual Bowles) (2017) Evonomics.com

The Invisible Hook: How Pirate Society Proves Economic Self-Interest Wrong (2017) Evonomics.com

Evolutionary Psychology and the Standard Social Science Model: Regaining the Middle Ground (2017) This View of Life

The Truth About Fake Facts (2017) This View of Life

Sexual Bullying and the Power of Norms (2017) This View of Life

 

2016

Does God Exist? Actually, Yes (2016) This View of Life

The New Atheism as a Stealth Religion: Five Years Later (2016) This View of Life

Can Evolution Be Conscious? Introducing a Collection of Commentaries Published in This View of Life (with Mel Andrews and Maximus Thaler) (2016) This View of Life

Empowering the Evolutionary Synthesis (with Kevin Laland) (2016) This View of Life

A Conversation with Kim Sterelny about the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (2016) This View of Life

Saved by Evolution: How A Prison Inmate Turned Science into a Meaning System  (with Gary Shepherd) (2016) This View of Life

Giving Business the Darwin: An Interview with Mark Van Vugt (2016) This View of Life

When Evolutionists Acquire Superhuman Powers: A Conversation with Peter and Rosemary Grant (2016) This View of Life

Was Dewey a Darwinian? Yes! Yes! Yes! An Interview with Trevor Pearce (2016) This View of Life

Was Hitler a Darwinian? No! No! No! An Interview with Robert Richards (2016) This View of Life

Toward  a New Social Darwinism (2016) This View of Life

Why Did Sociology Declare Independence From Biology (And Can They Be Reunited)? An Interview with Russell Schutt (2016) This View of Life

Evolutionary Medicine Comes of Age: An Interview with Randolph Nesse (2016) This View of Life

The One Culture: Four New Books Indicate that the Barrier Between Science and the Humanities is at Last Breaking Down (2016) This View of Life

Darwin’s Bridge to the Humanities: An Interview with Joseph Carroll (2016) This View of Life

When the Strong Outbreed the Weak: An Interview with William Muir (2016) This View of Life

TVOL Special Edition: What’s Wrong (And Right) About Evolutionary Psychology? (2016) This View of Life

What Donald Trump & Company Need to Know About Evolution (2016) This View of Life

Developing the Field Site Concept of the Study of Cultural Evolution: Two Essays by David Sloan Wilson and Harvey Whitehouse. (2016) This View of Life

In Defense of the Blank Slate (2016) This View of Life

Evolution’s Master Craftsman: A Conversation with Richard Lenski (2016) This View of Life

The Tragedy of the Commons: How Elinor Ostrom Solved One of Life’s Greatest Dilemmas (2016) This View of Life

My Opinion of Noahpinion: A Response to Noah Smith’s Critique (2016) This View of Life

The Radical Remaking of Economics, with Eric Beinhocker (2016) This View of Life

The Death of the Invisible Hand: Why the Narrow Pursuit of Self-Interest Always Fails (2016) This View of Life

Why Groups Fail (Hint: For the Same Reasons that Nations Fail) (2016) This View of Life

“My Nation First!” Is No Better Than “Me First!” (2016) This View of Life

Scientists Discover What Economists Haven’t Found: Humans (with Joseph Henrich)  (2016) This View of Life

 

2015

The Playwright and the Scientist: A Conversation Between Tom Stoppard and David Sloan Wilson (2015) This View of Life

Tom Stoppard’s Hard Problems (2015) This View of Life

My Spiritual Journey: Part 1 (2015) This View of Life

My Spiritual Journey: Part 2 (2015) This View of Life

My Spiritual Journey: Part 3 (2015) This View of Life

My Spiritual Journey: Part 4 (2015) This View of Life

My Spiritual Journey: Part 5 (2015) This View of Life

My Spiritual Journey: Part 6 (2015) This View of Life

My Spiritual Journey: Part 7 (2015) This View of Life

My Spiritual Journey: Part 8 (2015) This View of Life

The New Evolution Institute and the Science-to-Narrative Chain by David Sloan Wilson, President (2015) This View of Life

Doing Well by Doing Good: An Evolution Institute Report on Socially Responsible Businesses (2015) This View of Life

Steering Toward the Omega Point: A Roundtable Discussion of Altruism, Evolution, and Spirituality (with Kurt Johnson) (2015) This View of Life

The Case for Rescuing Tainted Words (2015) This View of Life

Truth and Reconciliation for Social Darwinism (with Eric Michael Johnson) (2015) This View of Life

When Scientists Become Demagogues (2015) This View of Life

Spandrels of San Marcos Revisited: An Interview with Richard Lewontin (2015) This View of Life

Charles Darwin as the Father of Economics: A Conversation with Robert Frank (2015) This View of Life

The Blueprint of Multilevel Selection (reply to commentaries on Blueprint for a Global Village) (2015) This View of Life

Mopping Up Final Opposition to Group Selection (2015) This View of Life

The Tide of Opposition on Group Selection has Turned (2015) This View of Life

Paul Krugman and David Brooks: The Language Prison That Traps Liberals and Conservatives (2015) This View of Life

 

2014

Blueprint for the Global Village (with Dag Hessen) 2014 This View of Life

Pioneers of Evolution: David Sloan Wilson (2014) This View of Life

Let’s Start Calling Ourselves Evolutionists! (2014) This View of Life

Prosocial Can Improve the Quality of Life—One Group at a Time (2014) This View of Life

 

2013

Napoleon Chagnon: The Fierce Sociobiologist (2013) This View of Life

The New Invisible Hand (2013) This View of Life

Generalizing the Commons (2013) This View of Life

A Third Wave of Evolutionary Thought (2013) This View of Life

Generalizing the Core Design Principles for the Efficacy of Groups (with Michael Cox) (2013) This View of Life

Evolving the Future (2013) This View of Life

A Good Social Darwinism (2013) This View of Life

 

2012

Welcome to Evolution: This View of Life (2012) This View of Life

Robert Bellah on Religion, Atheism, and the World and All Its Contents (2012) This View of Life

Human Cultures are Primarily Adaptive at the Group Level (2012) This View of Life

Science as a (Fragile) Cultural Adaptation, with Robert N. McCauley (2012) This View of Life

Eight Criticisms Not to Make About Group Selection, with Omar Eldakar (2012) This View of Life

Frans de Waal on the Evolution of Morality (2012) This View of Life

Who is More Phobic About Science—Conservatives or Liberals, with Jonathan Haidt (2012) This View of Life

Pugilistic Science (2012) This View of Life

Jerry Coyne on the New Atheism and Evolutionary Religious Studies (2012) This View of Life

Farewell, Lin Ostrom (2012) This View of Life

 

What Does it Mean to be Human? An Evolutionist’s View (2012) This View of Life

 

2011

Can Evolution Breed Better Communities? (NPR; 2011) This View of Life

Evolution: Darwin’s City (Nature magazine) (2011) This View of Life