The Evolution of Intelligence Are Humans the Only Animals With Minds?
Material type: TextPublication details: Illinois Open Court 2005Description: 272pISBN:- 9780812694598
- O80 F432
includes index and biblioraphy
Part I / Evolution and Cognition
1 Biology and Behavior
1.1 Behavior and Causation
1.2 The Matter of Meaning
1.3 Cognitive Strategies
2 Animal Mentality
2.1 Do Animals Have Minds?
2.2 The Nature of Minds
2.3 The Role of Concepts
3 The Minds of Primates
3.1 The Great Apes
3.2 The Mountain Gorilla
3.3 A Precocious Chimpanzee
Part II / Evolution and Intelligence
4 Computers and Cognition
4.1 The Computational Conception
4.2 Minds and Machines
4.3 Consciousness and Cognition
5 Gene-Culture Co-Evolution
5.1 Minds and Their Bodies
5.2 Gene-Culture Co-Evolution
5.3 Is Sociobiology Science?
6 What about Intelligence?
6.1 Intelligence and Human Variability
6.2 Human Variability and Evolution
6.3 Is IQ Variable?
Part III / Evolution and Morality
7 Evolution and Rationality
7.1 Adaptations as Knowledge
7.2 Evolutionary Epistemology
7.3 Is Rationality Adaptive?
8 Ethics and Evolution
8.1 Evolution and Morality
8.2 Morality and Biology
8.3 Is Nature Immoral?
9 Biology and Society
9.1 Group Selection
9.2 Non-Reductionism
9.3 The Moral Society
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