The social evolution of human nature: from biology to language
"This book sheds new light on the problem of how the human mind evolved. Harry Smit argues that current studies of this problem misguidedly try to solve it by using variants of the Cartesian conception of the mind, and shows that combining the Aristotelian conception with Darwin's theory p...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "This book sheds new light on the problem of how the human mind evolved. Harry Smit argues that current studies of this problem misguidedly try to solve it by using variants of the Cartesian conception of the mind, and shows that combining the Aristotelian conception with Darwin's theory provides us with far more interesting answers. He discusses the core problem of how we can understand language evolution in terms of inclusive fitness theory, and investigates how scientific and conceptual insights can be integrated into one explanatory framework, which he contrasts with the alternative Cartesian-derived framework. He then explores the differences between these explanatory frameworks with reference to co-operation and conflict at different levels of biological organization, the evolution of communicative behaviour, the human mind, language, and moral behaviour. His book will interest advanced students and scholars in a range of subjects including philosophy, biology and psychology"-- |
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| adam_text | THE SOCIAL EVOLUTION
OF HUMAN NATURE
From biology to language
HARRY SMIT
Department of Cognitive Neurosrience, Faculty of Psychology
and Neuroscience, Maastricht University
SI CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contents
Preface and acknowledgments page x
1 The major evolutionary transitions and Homo loquens i
1 1 Introduction i
1 2 The major evolutionary transitions 3
1 3 Cooperation and conflict 9
1 4 The evolutionary gene: what is it? 13
1 5 The causation of phenomena 17
1 6 The aim of this book 22
2 The conceptual foundation of human nature 25
2 1 Introduction 25
2 2 Body and mind 26
2 3 Conceptual investigations 32
2 4 Resolving problems 36
2 5 The (crypto-) Cartesian conception is incoherent 38
2 6 Receiving versus acquiring information 41
2 7 Feeling pain 43
2 8 Health and disease 46
2 9 Needs, desires and the will 49
2 10 Conclusion 51
3 Inclusive fitness theory and genomic imprinting 53
3 1 Introduction 53
3 2 Inclusive fitness theory 54
3 3 Cooperation 57
3 4 Hamilton s rule 59
3 5 Resolving conflict 63
3 6 Genomic imprinting 66
3 7 Prenatal and neonatal development 71
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viii Contents
3 8 Sibling rivalry and cooperadon 73
3-9 Grooming and caching food 76
3 IO Conclusion 79
4 Evolution, teleology and the argument from design 81
4 1 Introduction 81
4 2 The return of teleology 82
4 3 Types of teleological explanations 85
4 4 Williams argument from design 89
4-5 Purpose, health and welfare 96
4 6 Teleology and group selection 97
4 7 Conclusion 99
5 Dualism, monism and evolutionary psychology 101
5 1 Introduction 101
/i 5 2 Monism and dualism 103
5 3 Instincts and behavioural flexibility 107
5 4 The role of language HI
5 5 Intrapsychic conflicts 114
5 6 The crypto-Cartesian self and the Aristotelian agent rr8
5 7 Conclusion: indecision instead of a divided Self 120
6 Weismann, Wittgenstein and the homunculus fallacy 123
6 1 Introduction 123
6 2 Weismann on instinct 124
6 3 Innate or learnt 128
6 4 Instinct and the central dogma 131
6 5 Facts of mind and matter 135
6 6 Instinct, knowledge and abilities 136
6 7 Behaviour, brain and mind 141
6 8 Conclusion 144
7 Language evolution: doing things with words versus translating
thought into language 146
7 1 Introduction 146
7 2 Selection versus instruction 147
7 3 Innate knowledge 150
7-4 Aphasia [52
7-5 Is the Baldwin effect a solution? 156
7 6 The evolution of doing things with words 157
7 7 Earlier weaning and cooperative breeding 165
7-8 Conclusion 169
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Contents ix
8 Moral behaviour: a conceptual elaboration of Darwin s ideas 171
8 1 Introduction 171
8 2 Homo loquern and moral behaviour 172
8 3 The evolution of the incest taboo 175
84A taboo superimposed on a disposition 178
8 5 The emotionist model 181
8 6 The nativist model 184
8 7 The evolution of fair sharing 187
8 8 Conclusion 191
9 Epilogue 193
References 199
Index 218
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