Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture (eBook, PDF)

A Non-Adaptationist, Systems Theoretical Approach

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherland
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402033957
• Artikelnr.: 37791851

Inhaltsangabe

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to evolutionary epistemology, language and culture.- to evolutionary epistemology, language and culture.- Evolutionary epistemology.- Evolutionary epistemology: The non-adaptationist approach.- Like cats and dogs: Radical constructivism and evolutionary epistemology.- The biological boundary conditions for our classical physical world view.- Is the real world something more than the world of our experience? Relations between Neo-Darwinism, transcendental philosophy and cognitive sciences.- Universal Darwinism and process essentialism.- Evolutionary epistemology and language.- Darwinism, traditional linguistics and the new Palaeolithic Continuity Theory of language evolution.- The extended mind model of the origin of language and culture.- From changes in the world to changes in the words.- Evolutionary epistemology and the origin and evolution of language: Taking symbiogenesis seriously.- The self-organization of dynamic systems: Modularity under scrutiny.- Evolutionary epistemology and culture.- Against human nature.- Cognition, evolution, and sociality.- Cultural evolution, the Baldwin effect, and social norms.- Cultural creativity and evolutionary flexibility.- Some ideas to study the evolution of mathematics.- Evolutionary epistemology and modelling.- Computer modelling as a tool for understanding language evolution.- Simulating the syntax and semantics of linguistic constructions about time.- Evolutionary game-theoretic semantics and its foundational status.- Towards a quantum evolutionary scheme: Violating Bell's inequalities in language.

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From the reviews:

"The audience targeted by this book includes scholars working in fields as diverse as evolutionary epistemology, philosophy of science, evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. The book is the collection of essays on evolutionary epistemology ... . highlight of the book is the many papers dedicated to computer modeling and simulation. ... Overall, this is an interesting collection of papers that addresses an interesting topic. Researchers working around the theory of EE will find the book most beneficial." (Jason Brown, The Linguist List, February, 2008)