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UNINA9910458018303321 |
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Titolo |
Evolution, rationality, and cognition [[electronic resource] ] : a cognitive science for the twenty-first century / / edited by Antonio Zilhao |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-23062-1 |
1-280-29034-X |
9786610290345 |
0-203-01291-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (199 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in the philosophy of science ; ; v. 1 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Evolution - Philosophy |
Cognition - Philosophy |
Rationalism |
Cognitive science - Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Part I: Evolution -- Intelligent design is untestable : what about natural selection? / Elliott Sober -- Social learning and the Baldwin effect / David Papineau -- Signals, evolution and the explanatory power of transient information / Brian Skyrms -- Part II: Rationality -- Untangling the evolution of mental representation / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Innateness and brain-wiring optimization / Christopher Cherniak -- Evolution and the origins of the rational / Inman Harvey -- Part III: Cognition -- How to get around by mind and body : spatial thought, spatial action / Barbara Tversky -- Simulation and the evolution of mindreading / Chandra Sripada and Alvin Goldman -- Enhancing and augmenting human reasoning / Tim van Gelder. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Evolutionary thinking has expanded in the last decades, spreading from its traditional stronghold - the explanation of speciation and adaptation in biology - to new domains. Fascinating pieces of work, the essays in this collection attest to the illuminating power of evolutionary thinking when applied to the understanding of the human mind.The |
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