Bradley Franks

Culture and Cognition (eBook, PDF)

Evolutionary Perspectives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a critical assessment of modularity-based and social constructionist approaches to understanding mind and culture. In this groundbreaking and timely work, Franks demonstrates how a more plausible resolution to the circularity problem emerges from reframing mind and culture and their relations in evolutionary terms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230343832
• Artikelnr.: 62943413

Autorenporträt

BRADLEY FRANKS is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the London School of Economics, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- The Circularity Problem and Social Constructionist Views.- The Circularity Problem and Naturalistic Views.- Massive Modularity and Psychological Essentialism.- Explanatory Approaches: Cultural and Cognitive Environments and the Evolutionary Past.- Massive Modularity and Adaptations.- Representations, Motivation and Affect.- Mind, Situation and Representation.- Culture, Embodiment and Extended Mind.- Varieties of Theory of Mind, Affordances, Indication and Culture.- Adaptations, Culture and External Theory of Mind.- Cultural Evolution, Cultural Transmission and Cultural Patterns.- Circularity Revisited: Mind and Culture in Interaction.- References.