Scott Atran

Cognitive Foundations of Natural History

Towards an Anthropology of Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What enables humans to think scientifically? This book traces the development of Natural History from Aristotle to Darwin, demonstrating how the science of plants and animals emerged from common conceptions of folk biology. It applies a 'cognitive' perspective to explaining successive scientific incarnations and mutations of 'mankinds original stock of ideas'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780521438711
• ISBN-10: 0521438713
• Artikelnr.: 21267151

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Common sense: its scope and limits
Part I. Folkbiology: 2. Folktaxonomy
3. The semantics of living kinds
Part II. Aristotelian Essentials: 4. Essence and environment
5. Materials of logical division
Part III. From Herbals to Systems: 6. Origins of the species concept
7. The nature of the genus
Part IV. The Scientific Breakaway: 8. The method of families and classes
9. Science, symbolism and common sense
Conclusions
Appendix
Notes
References
Index.