The imagined world made real : towards a natural science of culture / Henry Plotkin
- Bib ID:
- 1622893
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Plotkin, H. C. (Henry C)
- Online Version:
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- Description:
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- London : Allen Lane, 2002
- xiv, 300 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0713994088
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Marrying the Biological and Social Sciences
- Culture, social constructions and natural science
- Possible frameworks
- Evolution and the theory of evolution
- Alternative theories to NeoDarwinism
- How good a theory is evolutionary theory?
- Suggested Readings
- The Evolution of Intelligence
- Why intelligence ever evolved at all
- The limits of reductionism
- Intelligence unlimited?
- Fodor poses a problem
- Human intelligence as adaptation or exaptation
- Suggested Readings
- The Emergence of Culture
- Broadening the picture
- The trouble with 'levels'
- A solution to the levels problem
- Suggested Readings
- Naturalizing Culture the Process Way
- The puzzle of war
- Universal Darwinism
- Modelling co-evolution
- The 'new' science of memetics
- Suggested Readings
- Causal Mechanisms
- A general framework for understanding
- psychological mechanism
- What those mechanisms may be
- Concepts, schemata and other higher-order
- knowledge structures
- Imitation
- Language
- Theory of Mind
- Social force
- A single magical mechanism?
- Suggested Readings
- Individuals, Groups and Culture
- The behavioural ecology of group living
- The units and levels of selection
- Vehicles, interactors and the revival of group
- selection
- Niche construction
- Suggested Readings
- The Strangeness of Culture
- The construction of social reality
- A sociological turn
- Social representations
- Cultural psychology
- A tentative conclusion
- Suggested Readings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
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