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The Evolution of Intelligence Are Humans the Only Animals With Minds?

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Illinois Open Court 2005Description: 272pISBN:
  • 9780812694598
DDC classification:
  • O80 F432
Partial contents:
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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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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