Evolution and the human mind - Modularity, language and meta-cognition edited by Peter Carruthers & Andrew Chamberlain
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How did our minds evolve? Can evolutionary considerations illuminate the question of the basic architecture of the human mind? These are two of the main questions addressed in Evolution and the human mind by a distinguished interdisciplinary team of philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists and archaeologists. The essays focus especially on issues to do with modularity of mind, the evolution and significance of natural language, and the evolution of our capacity for meta~cognition (thought about thought), together with its implications for consciousness. The editors have provided an introduction that lays out the background to the questions which the essays address, and a consolidated bibliography that will be a valuable reference resource for all those interested in this area. The volume will be of great interest to all researchers and students interested in the evolution and nature of the mind. Pascal Boyer, Peter Carruthers, Andrew Chamberlain, Robin Dunbar, Jim Hopkins, Claire Hughes, Steven Mithen, Adam Morton, Dominic Murphy, Gloria Origgi. David Papineau. Robert Plomin. Richard Samuels, Dan Sperber, Stephen Stich, Thomas Wynn.
Paperback - 346 pages ( 1 October, 2000) Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 0521789087
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