A new and important book by Bradley Franks: Culture and Cognition: Evolutionary Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).<\/p>\n
The blurb: “Human culture depends on human minds for its creation, meaning and exchange. But minds also depend on culture for their contents and processes. Past resolutions to this circularity problem have tended to give too much weight to one side and too little weight to the other.<\/p>\n
In this groundbreaking and timely work, Bradley Franks demonstrates how a more plausible resolution to the circularity problem emerges from reframing mind and culture and their relations in evolutionary terms. He proposes an alternative evolutionary approach that draws on views of mind as embodied and situated. By grounding social construction in evolution, evolution of mind is intrinsically connected to culture \u2013 resolving the circularity problem.<\/p>\n
In developing his theory, Franks provides a balanced critical assessment of modularity-based and social constructionist approaches to understanding mind and culture.”<\/p>\n
For the table of contents:<\/p>\n
Introduction
\nThe Circularity Problem and Social Constructionist Views
\nThe Circularity Problem and Naturalistic Views
\nMassive Modularity and Psychological Essentialism
\nExplanatory Approaches: Cultural and Cognitive Environments and the Evolutionary Past
\nMassive Modularity and Adaptations
\nRepresentations, Motivation and Affect
\nMind, Situation and Representation
\nCulture, Embodiment and Extended Mind
\nVarieties of Theory of Mind, Affordances, Indication and Culture
\nAdaptations, Culture and External Theory of Mind
\nCultural Evolution, Cultural Transmission and Cultural Patterns
\nCircularity Revisited: Mind and Culture in Interaction
\nReferences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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