Cognition, evolution, and rationality
Subtitle: a cognitive science for the twenty-first century
By: edited by Antonio Zilhao.
Contributors: Zilhão, António, 1960-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Evolution -- Philosophy; Cognition -- Philosophy; Rationalism; Cognitive science -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Evolution; title: Intelligent design is untestable : what about natural selection? / Elliott Sober; title: Social learning and the Baldwin effect / David Papineau; title: Signals, evolution and the explanatory power of transient information / Brian Skyrms; title: Part II: Rationality; title: Untangling the evolution of mental representation / Peter Godfrey-Smith; title: Innateness and brain-wiring optimization / Christopher Cherniak; title: Evolution and the origins of the rational / Inman Harvey; title: Part III: Cognition; title: How to get around by mind and body : spatial thought, spatial action / Barbara Tversky; title: Simulation and the evolution of mindreading / Chandra Sripada and Alvin Goldman; title: Enhancing and augmenting human reasoning / Tim van Gelder.