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Swirski, Peter. (2008). Of Literature and Knowledge: Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution, and Game Theory. London: Routledge.

Symons, Donald. (1979). The Evolution of Human Sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press.

Tavinor, Grant. (2005). “Video Games and Interactive Fiction,” Philosophy Philosophy and Literature 29:24–40.

———. (2009). The Art of Videogames. Oxford: Blackwell.

Telfer, Elizabeth. (1996). Food for Thought. London: Routledge.

Thornhill, Randy. (1998). “Darwinian Aesthetics,” in Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, ed. Charles Crawford and Dennis Krebs, Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Tolstoy, Leo. (1960). What is Art? Trans. Aylmer Maude. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Originally published in 1896.

Tooby, John, and Leda Cosmides. (1990). “The Past Explains the Present: Emotional Adaptations and the Structure of Ancestral Environments.” Ethology and Sociobiology 11:375–424.

———. (2001). “Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Aesthetics, Fiction, and the Arts.” SubStance 94/95:6–27.

Ulrich, Roger S. (1993). “Biophilia, Biophobia, and Natural Landscapes,”

The Biophilia Hypothesis, ed. Stephen R. Kellert and Edward O. Wilson. Washington: Shearwater/Island Press.

Damme, Wilfried. (1996). Beauty in Context: Towards an Anthropological Van Damme, Wilfried. (1996). Approach to Aesthetics. Leiden: Brill.

Veblen, Thorstein. (1994). The Theory of the Leisure Class. New York: Dover. Originally published in 1899.

Vogel, Susan Mullin. (1991). “Elastic Continuum,” in Africa Explores: 20th Century Voland, Eckart. (2003). “Aesthetic Preferences in the World of Artifacts: Adaptations for the Evaluation of Honest Signals?” in Voland and Grammer (2003).

Voland, Eckart, and Karl Grammer, eds. (2003). Evolutionary Aesthetics. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Wallin, Nils L., Björn Merker, and Steven Brown, eds. (1999). The Origins Music. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Weiner, James, ed. (1994). Aesthetics Is a Cross-cultural Category. Manchester: University of Manchester.

Werness, Hope B. (1983). “Han van Meegeren Fecit,” in Dutton (1983).

Whorf, Benjamin Lee. (1956). Language, Thought, and Reality. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Wilson, David Sloan. (2002). Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

———. (2007). Evolution for Everyone. New York: Delacorte Press.

Wilson, Edward O. (1998). Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. . New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Wimsatt, William K., and Monroe C. Beardsley. (1946). “The Intentional Fallacy.”

Wimsatt, William K., and Monroe C. Beardsley. (1946). “The Intentional Sewanee Review 54:468–88.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. (1958). Philosophical Investigations, 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan. Originally published in 1953.

Wright, Robert. (1994). The Moral Animal. New York: Pantheon.

Wyndham Lewis, D. B., and Charles Lee. (2003). The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse. New York: NYRB Classics. The first of many editions was published in 1930.

Wynne, Frank. (2006). I Was Vermeer: The Legend of the Forger Who Swindled Nazis. London: Bloomsbury.

Wypijewski, JoAnn, ed. (1997). Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid’s Guide to Art. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Zahavi, Amotz, and Avishag Zahavi. (1997). The Handicap Principle: A Missing Piece of Darwin’s Puzzle. New York: Oxford University Press.

Zunshine, Lisa. (2006). Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

A Note on the Author

Denis Dutton is a professor of aesthetics and the philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He founded and still edits the highly successful Johns Hopkins University Press scholarly journal Philosophy and Literature. He also conceived and continues to edit Arts &Letters Daily, one of the most heavily trafficked Web sites anywhere for news and opinion in science, the arts, and ideas. Arts & Letters Daily was named by the Guardian/Observer as the “best website in