03524nam 2200745Ia 450 991096885170332120251116234224.01-317-54491-90-367-87220-X1-84465-486-91-317-54492-71-315-72910-510.4324/9781315729107 (CKB)2560000000332341(EBL)1782465(OCoLC)890531486(SSID)ssj0000671732(PQKBManifestationID)11384634(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000671732(PQKBWorkID)10624748(PQKB)10991617(MiAaPQ)EBC1782465(Au-PeEL)EBL1782465(CaPaEBR)ebr10553900(CaONFJC)MIL644364(OCoLC)958108479(OCoLC)794490880(FINmELB)ELB136700(UkCbUP)CR9781844654864(EXLCZ)99256000000033234120101214d2011 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDarwinian creativity and memetics /Maria Kronfeldner1st ed.Durham [England] Acumen Publishing Ltd.2011Durham [England] :Acumen Publishing Ltd.,2011.1 online resource (ix, 165 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Acumen research editionsTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).1-322-13110-4 1-84465-256-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Light will be thrown -- Darwinian principles -- The origin of novelty -- Guided variation -- The units of culture -- Memes or minds.Maria Kronfeldner critically evaluates two influential approaches to cultural change that explain creativity and diffusion as an evolutionary process by drawing an analogy between the Darwinian approach to creativity and the theory of memes, or memetics. The Darwinian approach to creativity maintains that a process of blind variation and selection creates novelty in culture. Memetics goes further by claiming that we can ignore or even eliminate the human mind as the main causal force in the explanation of creativity and culture. In a penetrating analysis Kronfeldner shows analogical reasoning from evolutionary biology to cultural change lacks the necessary descriptive adequacy, explanatory force and heuristic value to be successful. Indeed she shows that both the Darwinian approach to creativity and memetics are mere reformulations, in Darwinian language, of what has been known already and offer no new explanatory tools. The book provides an acute philosophical examination of Darwinian creativity and memetics from within the respective evolutionary approaches including debates from genetics, evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, science studies and philosophy.Acumen research editions.Social evolutionCreative abilityMemeticsSocial evolution.Creative ability.Memetics.303.40157682303.40157682Kronfeldner Maria1877316MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910968851703321Darwinian creativity and memetics4489457UNINA