Thought in a hostile world : the evolution of human cognition /
Esta es una exploración de la evolución de la cognición. El autor comienza desarrollando un conjunto de herramientas analíticas para pensar sobre la cognición y su evolución, examinando la relación entre la psicología popular y una concepción científica integrada de la cognición humana.
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Malden (Massachusetts) :
Blackwell,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- PART I ASSEMBLING INTENTIONALITY : 1. Evolutionary Naturalism : Two Projects of Evolutionary Naturalism
- The Simple Coordination Thesis
- 2. Detection Systems
- The Environmental Complexity Hypothesis
- Detection Systems
- The Power of Detection Systems
- Transparent and Translucent Worlds
- Robust Tracking Systems
- 3. Fuels for Success
- Decoupled Representation
- Response Breadth
- Fuels for Success: Space
- Fuels for Success: Intervention in the Material
- World
- Reprise
- 4. Fuels for Success: The Social Intelligence Hypothesis
- The Cognitive Demands of Social Life
- The Social Intelligence Hypothesis
- The Cognitive World of the Great Apes: Imitation
- 4:4 The Cognitive World of Great Apes: Tracking
- Other Minds
- 5. The Descent of Preference
- Internal Environments The Forager's Dilemma
- Preference Eliminativism?
- Preference-like States.
- PART II NOT JUST ANOTHER SPECIES OF LARGE MAMMAL : 6. Reconstructing Hominid Evolution
- Testing Theories of Human Evolution
- From Cognitive Device to Evolutionary History
- Making Progress
- An Example: Tomasello's Conjecture
- Conclusions
- 7. The Cooperation Explosion
- The Cooperative Primate
- Group Selection and Human Cooperation
- The Ecological Trigger of Hominid Cooperation
- Coalition and Enforcement
- Commitment to Enforcement
- Upshot
- 8. The Self-made Species
- Ecological Engineers
- Cumulative Niche Construction: The Cognitive
- Condition
- Cumulative Niche Construction: The Social
- Condition
- Hominid Epistemic Engineering
- Hownstream Epistemic Engineering
- 9. Heterogeneous Environments and Variable Response
- Phenotypic Plasticity
- Is Plasticity an Adaptation?
- Reprise.
- PART III THE FATE OF THE FOLK : 10. The Massive Modularity Hypothesis
- Massive Modularity
- Language: Paradigm or Outlier?
- Communicative Intentions
- Fodor's Modules and their Limits
- Inward Bound
- Evolution and Encapsulation
- The Poverty of the Stimulus
- The Case of Folk Biology
- Modularity and the Frame Problem
- 11. Interpreting Other Agents
- A Theory of Mind Module?
- Deconstructing the Folk Psychology Module
- Interpretation, Perception, and Scaffolded
- Learning
- Truth, Evidence, and Success
- Coordination and Meaning
- Something New under the Sun?.