The social evolution of human nature : from biology to language /
"This book sheds new light on the problem of how the human mind evolved. Harry Smit argues that current studies of this problem misguidedly try to solve it by using variants of the Cartesian conception of the mind, and shows that combining the Aristotelian conception with Darwin's theory p...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Corporate Author: | |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The major evolutionary transitions and Homo loquens; 2. The conceptual foundation of human nature; 3. Inclusive fitness theory and genomic imprinting; 4. Evolution, teleology, and the argument from design; 5. Dualism, monism and evolutionary psychology; 6. Weismann, Wittgenstein and the homunculus fallacy; 7. Language evolution: doing things with words versus translating thought into language; 8. Moral behaviour: a conceptual elaboration of Darwin's ideas; 9. Epilogue.