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Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and Cognition Peter Carruthers (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland)

Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and Cognition By Peter Carruthers (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland)

Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and Cognition by Peter Carruthers (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland)


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This is the second volume of a three volume series on innateness - one of the central questions currently debated in the cognitive and behavioural sciences.

Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and Cognition Summary

Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and Cognition by Peter Carruthers (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland)

This is the second of a three volume series on innateness-one of the central topics currently debated in the cognitive and behavioral sciences. The series grows out of interdisciplinary "working groups" at Rutgers University. The first volume focused on the fundamental architecture of the human mind. The second volume focuses on culture. It is comprised of cutting-edge work by an interdisciplinary roster of well-known scholars including Robert Boyd, Peter Richerson, David Sloan Wilson, Paul Griffiths, Dan Sperber, Kim Sterelny, Scott Atran, and Peter Todd.

Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and Cognition Reviews

"If you are impressed by our species' cross-cultural variation, but mystified by how it emerges, then read this book. If you are unimpressed by our cross-cultural variation, but moved by our universality, then read this book. You will learn that of all the species that have existed on earth, we are truly bizarre, at once both clones of each other and yet remarkably different."-Marc Hauser, Harvard College Professor of Psychology and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and author of Wild Minds and Moral Minds.
"Carruthers, Laurence, and Stich have done it again! The second book in their Innate Mind series is as much a must have as the first. Most of the big names in evolutionary psychology and cultural evolution are represented here, talking sensibly and informatively about how culture informs and shapes the innate mind, and vice versa. Both meta-level and object-level issues are dealt with. How should the relation between culture and the genetically shaped mind be conceived? Is the innate mind modular? How does our manifest and massive enculturation influence the evolution of our minds, and how do the minds we have inherited from our hominid ancestors shape our mental, social, moral, and religious practices? This book is not a survey; it is a collection of cutting-edge research papers, which should stimulate professionals and students alike."-Fiona Cowie, author of What's Within
"This is a fantastic volume. It beautifully answers the tired complaint that we need to get beyond the simple nature/nurture dichotomy. This collection of essays represents a striking advance in our understanding of both nativism and culture. It also provides the basis for a bright future in charting how innate and cultural components interact. Together with the other Innate Mind volumes assembled by this team, this volume represents a real landmark in the development of nativism."-Shaun Nichols, University of Arizona, and author of Sentimental Rules and co-author of Mindreading.

About Peter Carruthers (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland)

Peter Carruthers is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. Stephen Laurence is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Hang Seng Center for Cognitive Studies at University of Sheffield. Stephen Stich is Board of Governors Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Preface List of Contributors 1: TOM SIMPSON, University of York, STEPHEN STICH, Rutgers University, PETER CARRUTHERS, University of Maryland, and STEPHEN LAURENCE, University of Sheffield: Introduction: Culture and the Innate Mind PART ONE: LEARNING, CULTURE, AND EVOLUTION 2: ROBERT BOYD, University of California at Los Angeles; PETER RICHERSON, University of California at Davis: Culture, Adaptation, and Innateness 3: PAUL ROZIN, University of Pennsylvania: About 17 (+/- 2) Potential Principles about Links Between the Innate Mind and Culture: Preadaptation, Predispositions, Preferences, Pathways, and Domains 4: DANIEL FESSLER, University of California at Los Angeles: Steps Towards an Evolutionary Psychology of a Culture-Dependent Species 5: DAVID SLOAN WILSON, Binghampton: Human Groups as Adaptive Units: Toward a Permanent Consensus 6: PAUL GRIFFITHS, University of Queensland: The Baldwin Effect and Genetic Assimilation: Contrasting Explanatory Foci and Gene Concepts in Two Approaches to an Evolutionary Process 7: DAVID PAPINEAU, King's College London: The Baldwin Effect and Genetic Assimilation: Reply to Griffiths 8: MARCUS GIAQUINTO, University College London: Mental Number Lines PART TWO: MODULARITY AND COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE 9: MICHAEL SIEGAL, University of Sheffield and LUCA SURIAN, University of Trieste: Modularity in Language and Theory of Mind: What is the Evidence? 10: DAN SPERBER, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris and LAWRENCE HIRSCHFELD, University of Michigan: Culture and Modularity 11: PETER TODD, Indiana University at Bloomington and ANNERIEKE HEUVELINK, Vrije University, Amsterdam: Shaping Social Environments with Simple Recognition Heuristics 12: PETER CARRUTHERS, University of Maryland: Simple Heuristics Meet Massive Modularity 13: H CLARK BARRETT, University of California at Los Angeles: Modularity and Design Reincarnation 14: KIM STERELNY, Victoria University in Wellington and Australian National University: Cognitive Load and Human Decision, or, Three Ways of Rolling the Rock Uphill PART THREE: MORALITY, NORMS, AND RELIGION 15: SUSAN DWYER, University of Maryland Baltimore County: How Good is the Linguistic Analogy? 16: RICHARD JOYCE, Australian National University: Is Human Morality Innate? 17: CHANDRA SEKHA SRIPADA, University of Michigan and STEPHEN STICH, Rutgers University: A Framework for the Psychology of Norms 18: SCOTT ATRAN, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, and University of Michigan: Religions Innate Origins and Evolutionary Background References

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NLS9780195310146
9780195310146
0195310144
Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and Cognition by Peter Carruthers (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland)
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Oxford University Press Inc
2007-01-18
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