Susan Oyama
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Susan Oyama (born May 22, 1943)[1] is a philosopher of biology, a developmental systems theorist and a professor of psychology; currently professor emerita at the John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.[2]
Oyama's work interrogates the nature versus nurture debates, and problematizes the conceptual foundations (e.g., assumptions, binaries, and classifications) on which these debates depend. Her notion of a "developmental system" allows us to reevaluate and reintegrate standard dichotomies such as development and evolution, body and mind, and stasis and change. Oyama's Developmental systems theory has had a significant impact in cognitive science, psychology, and the philosophy of biology.[3]
She graduated from Mills College and Harvard University.[4]
She married the Italian composer Luciano Berio in 1966. They divorced in 1972.
