Peter Carruthers / Andrew Chamberlain (eds.)

Evolution and the Human Mind

Modularity, Language and Meta-Cognition
Herausgeber: Carruthers, Peter; Chamberlain, Andrew

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How did our minds evolve? Can evolutionary considerations illuminate the question of the basic architecture of the human mind? These are two of the main questions addressed in Evolution and the Human Mind by a distinguished interdisciplinary team of philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists and archaeologists. The volume will be of great interest to all researchers and students interested in the evolution and nature of the mind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9780521789080
• ISBN-10: 0521789087
• Artikelnr.: 21700204

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
Preface
1. Introduction Peter Carruthers and Andrew Chamberlain
2. Massively modular minds: evolutionary psychology and cognitive architecture Richard Samuels
3. Individual differences in early understanding of mind: genes, non-shared environment and modularity Claire Hughes and Robert Plomin
4. Darwin in the madhouse: evolutionary psychology and the classification of mental disorders Dominic Murphy and Stephen Stich
5. Evolution of the modern mind and the origins of culture: religious concepts as a limiting case Pascal Boyer
6. Symmetry and the evolution of the modular linguistic mind Thomas Wynn
7. Evolution, communication and the proper function of language Gloria Origgi and Dan Sperber
8. The evolution of knowledge David Papineau
9. Mind, brain and material culture: an archaeological perspective Steven Mithen
10. The evolution of strategic thinking Adam Morton
11. On the origin of the human mind Robin Dunbar
12. The evolution of consciousness Peter Carruthers
13. Evolution, consciousness and the internality of the mind Jim Hopkins
References
Author index
Subject index.