Evolution, Rationality and Cognition : a Cognitive Science for the Twenty-first Century.

Evolutionary thinking has expanded in the last decades, spreading from its traditional stronghold - the explanation of speciation and adaptation in biology - to new domains. Fascinating pieces of work, the essays in this collection attest to the illuminating power of evolutionary thinking when appli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Zilhao, Antonio (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2005.
Temas:
Evolution > Philosophy.
Cognition > Philosophy.
Rationalism.
Cognitive science > Philosophy.
Évolution > Philosophie.
Cognition > Philosophie.
Rationalisme.
Sciences cognitives > Philosophie.
rationalism (philosophy)
Cognition > Philosophy
Cognitive science > Philosophy
Evolution > Philosophy
Rationalism
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Evolution
  • Intelligent design is untestable : what about natural selection? / Elliott Sober
  • Social learning and the Baldwin effect / David Papineau
  • Signals, evolution and the explanatory power of transient information / Brian Skyrms
  • Part II: Rationality
  • Untangling the evolution of mental representation / Peter Godfrey-Smith
  • Innateness and brain-wiring optimization / Christopher Cherniak
  • Evolution and the origins of the rational / Inman Harvey
  • Part III: Cognition
  • How to get around by mind and body : spatial thought, spatial action / Barbara Tversky
  • Simulation and the evolution of mindreading / Chandra Sripada and Alvin Goldman
  • Enhancing and augmenting human reasoning / Tim van Gelder.

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