Cognition, evolution, and rationality : a cognitive science for the twenty-first century /

Other Authors: Zilhão, António,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Series:Routledge studies in the philosophy of science ; 1
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=147642
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Evolution
  • Intelligent design is untestable : what about natural selection? / Elliott Sober
  • Social learning and the Baldwin effect / David Papineau
  • Signals, evolution, and the explanatory power of transient information / Brian Skyrms
  • Part II: Rationality
  • Untangling the evolution of mental representation / Peter Godfrey-Smith
  • Innateness and brain-wiring optimization : non-genomic nativism / Christopher Cherniak
  • Evolution and the origins of the rational / Inman Harvey
  • Part III: Cognition
  • How to get around by mind and body : spatial thought, spatial action / Barbara Tversky
  • Simulation and the evolution of mindreading / Chandra Sekhar Sripada and Alvin I. Goldman
  • Enhancing and augmenting human reasoning / Tim van Gelder.