The Imagined World Made Real Towards a Natural Science of Culture
- New Burnswick, New Jersey Rutgers University Press 2002
- 301p
includes index and biblioraphy
Marrying the Biological and Social Sciences i Culture, social constructions and natural science 7 Possible frameworks 16 Evolution and the theory of evolution 19 Alternative theories to NeoDarwinism 38 How good a theory is evolutionary theory? 43 2 The Evolution of Intelligence 47 Why intelligence ever evolved at all 48 The limits of reductionism 71 Intelligence unlimited? 75 Fodor poses a problem 83 Human intelligence as adaptation or exaptation 88 3 The Emergence of Culture 95 Broadening the picture 100 The trouble with `levels` 112 A solution to the levels problem 114 4 Naturalizing Culture the Process Way 120 The puzzle of war 124 Universal Darwinism 130 Modelling co-evolution 135 The `new` science of memetics 140 5 Causal Mechanisms 161 A general framework for understanding psychological mechanism 163 What those mechanisms may be 171 Concepts, schemata and other higher-order knowledge structures 172 Imitation 179 Language 188 Theory of Mind 197 Social force 204 A single magical mechanism? ZO9 Sugges ted R eadings 211 6 Individuals, Groups and Culture 213 The behavioural ecology of group living 217 The units and levels of selection 220 Vehicles, interactors and the revival of group selection 231 Niche construction 242 7 The Strangeness of Culture 248 The construction of social reality 251 A sociological turn 259 Social representations 266 Cultural psychology 273