Evolution, rationality, and cognition a cognitive science for the twenty-first century
Title:
Evolution, rationality, and cognition a cognitive science for the twenty-first century
Author:
Zilhão, António, 1960-
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Physical Description:
xi, 186 p. : ill.
Series:
Routledge studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 1
Routledge studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 1.
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 / 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 Sripada and Alvin Goldman -- Enhancing and augmenting human reasoning / Tim van Gelder.
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