Thought In A Hostile World

Featuresan exploration of the evolution of human cognition.

Written by one of today's foremost philosophers of mind and language.

Presents a set of analytic tools for thinking about cognition and its evolution.

Informationen zum Autor Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington and at the Research School of Social Science at the Australian National University. He is the author of The Representational Theory of Mind (Blackwell, 1990) and the co-author, with Michael Devitt, of Language and Reality (second edition, 1999) and, with Paul Griffiths, Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology (1999). Klappentext Thought in a Hostile World is an exploration of the evolution of cognition, especially human cognition, by one of today's foremost philosophers of biology and of mind. The central idea of the book is that thought is a response to threat. Competitors and enemies make life hard by their direct physical effects. But they also make life hard by eroding epistemic conditions. They lie. They hide themselves. They seem other than what they are. Sterelny uses this and related ideas to explore from an evolutionary perspective the relationship between folk psychology and an integrated scientific conception of human cognition. In the process, he examines how and why human minds have evolved. The book argues that humans are cognitively, socially, and sexually very unlike the other great apes, and that despite our relatively recent separation from their lineages, human social and cognitive evolution has been driven by unusual evolutionary mechanisms. In developing his own picture of the descent of the human mind, Sterelny further offers a critique of nativist, modular versions of evolutionary psychology.This volume will be of vital interest to scholars and students interested in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and evolutionary psychology. Zusammenfassung This is an exploration of the evolution of cognition. The author begins by developing a set of analytic tools for thinking about cognition and its evolution!examining the relationship between folk psychology and an integrated scientific conception of human cognition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface.Part I: Assembling Intentionality:1. Evolutionary Naturalism:Two Projects Of Evolutionary NaturalismThe Simple Co-Ordination Thesis2. Detection Systems:The Environmental Complexity HypothesisDetection SystemsThe Power Of Detection Systems Transparent And Translucent WorldsRobust Tracking Systems3. Fuels For Success:Decoupled RepresentationResponse BreadthFuels For Success: SpaceFuels For Success: Intervention In The Material WorldReprise4. Fuels For Success: The Social Intelligence Hypothesis:The Cognitive Demands Of Social LifeThe Social Intelligence HypothesisThe Cognitive World Of The Great Apes: ImitationThe Cognitive World Of Great Apes: Tracking Other Minds5. The Descent Of Preference:Internal EnvironmentsThe Forager's DilemmaPreference Eliminativism?Preference-Like StatesPart II: Not Just Another Species Of Large Mammal:6. Reconstructing Hominid Evolution:Testing Theories Of Human EvolutionFrom Cognitive Device To Evolutionary HistoryMaking ProgressAn Example: Tomasello's ConjectureConclusions7. The Co-Operation Explosion:The Co-Operative PrimateGroup Selection And Human Co-OperationThe Ecological Trigger Of Hominid Co-OperationCoalition And EnforcementCommitment To Enforcement.Upshot8. The Self-Made Species:Ecological EngineersCumulative Niche Construction: The Cognitive ConditionCumulative Niche Construction: The Social ConditionHominid Epistemic EngineeringDownstream Epistemic Engineering9. Heterogeneous Environments And Variable Response:Phenotypic PlasticityIs Plasticity An Adaptation?ReprisePart III: The Fate Of The Folk:10. The Massive Modularity Hypothesis:Massive ModularityLanguage: Paradigm Or Outlier?Communicative IntentionsFodor's Modules And Their LimitsInward BoundEvolution And EncapsulationThe Poverty Of The StimulusThe Case Of Folk BiologyModularity And The Frame Problem11. Interpreting Other Agents:A Theory Of Mind Modul...

Autorentext
Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington and at the Research School of Social Science at the Australian National University. He is the author of The Representational Theory of Mind (Blackwell, 1990) and the co-author, with Michael Devitt, of Language and Reality (second edition, 1999) and, with Paul Griffiths, Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology (1999).

Klappentext
Thought in a Hostile World is an exploration of the evolution of cognition, especially human cognition, by one of today's foremost philosophers of biology and of mind.
The central idea of the book is that thought is a response to threat. Competitors and enemies make life hard by their direct physical effects. But they also make life hard by eroding epistemic conditions. They lie. They hide themselves. They seem other than what they are.
Sterelny uses this and related ideas to explore from an evolutionary perspective the relationship between folk psychology and an integrated scientific conception of human cognition. In the process, he examines how and why human minds have evolved. The book argues that humans are cognitively, socially, and sexually very unlike the other great apes, and that despite our relatively recent separation from their lineages, human social and cognitive evolution has been driven by unusual evolutionary mechanisms. In developing his own picture of the descent of the human mind, Sterelny further offers a critique of nativist, modular versions of evolutionary psychology.This volume will be of vital interest to scholars and students interested in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and evolutionary psychology.

Zusammenfassung
This is an exploration of the evolution of cognition. The author begins by developing a set of analytic tools for thinking about cognition and its evolution,examining the relationship between folk psychology and an integrated scientific conception of human cognition.

Inhalt
Preface.Part I: Assembling Intentionality:1. Evolutionary Naturalism:Two Projects Of Evolutionary NaturalismThe Simple Co-Ordination Thesis2. Detection Systems:The Environmental Complexity HypothesisDetection SystemsThe Power Of Detection Systems Transparent And Translucent WorldsRobust Tracking Systems3. Fuels For Success:Decoupled RepresentationResponse BreadthFuels For Success: SpaceFuels For Success: Intervention In The Material WorldReprise4. Fuels For Success: The Social Intelligence Hypothesis:The Cognitive Demands Of Social LifeThe Social Intelligence HypothesisThe Cognitive World Of The Great Apes: ImitationThe Cognitive World Of Great Apes: Tracking Other Minds5. The Descent Of Preference:Internal EnvironmentsThe Forager's DilemmaPreference Eliminativism?Preference-Like StatesPart II: Not Just Another Species Of Large Mammal:6. Reconstructing Hominid Evolution:Testing Theories Of Human EvolutionFrom Cognitive Device To Evolutionary HistoryMaking ProgressAn Example: Tomasello's ConjectureConclusions7. The Co-Operation Explosion:The Co-Operative PrimateGroup Selection And Human Co-OperationThe Ecological Trigger Of Hominid Co-OperationCoalition And EnforcementCommitment To Enforcement.Upshot8. The Self-Made Species:Ecological EngineersCumulative Niche Construction: The Cognitive ConditionCumulative Niche Construction: The Social ConditionHominid Epistemic EngineeringDownstream Epistemic Engineering9. Heterogeneous Environments And Variable Response:Phenotypic PlasticityIs Plasticity An Adaptation?ReprisePart III: The Fate Of The Folk:10. The Massive Modularity Hypothesis:Massive ModularityLanguage: Paradigm Or Outlier?Communicative IntentionsFodor's Modules And Their LimitsInward …

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