The Social Evolution of Human Nature: From Biology to Language - Couverture rigide

Smit, Harry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107055199 ISBN 13 : 9781107055193

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This book sheds new light on the problem of how the human mind evolved. Harry Smit argues that current studies of this problem misguidedly try to solve it by using variants of the Cartesian conception of the mind, and shows that combining the Aristotelian conception with Darwin's theory provides us with far more interesting answers. He discusses the core problem of how we can understand language evolution in terms of inclusive fitness theory, and investigates how scientific and conceptual insights can be integrated into one explanatory framework, which he contrasts with the alternative Cartesian-derived framework. He then explores the differences between these explanatory frameworks with reference to co-operation and conflict at different levels of biological organization, the evolution of communicative behaviour, the human mind, language, and moral behaviour. His book will interest advanced students and scholars in a range of subjects including philosophy, biology and psychology.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Harry Smit is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107055199
• ISBN 13: 9781107055193
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 237
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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