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Modularity, Language and Meta-Cognition

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Hardcover | 15 March 2001

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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.

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'... it is the combination of its desire to pull together scholars from different disciplines and the calibre of the individual papers, often heavily interdisciplinary themselves, which deems the book a success.' Cambridge Archaeological Journal '... would recommend this book to anyone interested in the nature and evolution of human mind and language ...' JRAI

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Non-Fiction Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Language & Linguistics Linguistics Science Biology, Life Sciences Life Sciences in General Evolution Philosophy Philosophy of The Mind

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List of contributors	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Massively modular minds: evolutionary psychology and cognitive architecture	p. 13
Individual differences in early understanding of mind: genes, non-shared environment and modularity	p. 47
Darwin in the madhouse: evolutionary psychology and the classification of mental disorders	p. 62
Evolution of the modern mind and the origins of culture: religious concepts as a limiting-case	p. 93
Symmetry and the evolution of the modular linguistic mind	p. 113
Evolution, communication and the proper function of language	p. 140
The evolution of knowledge	p. 170
Mind, brain and material culture: an archaeological perspective	p. 207
The evolution of strategic thinking	p. 218
On the origin of the human mind	p. 238
The evolution of consciousness	p. 254
Evolution, consciousness and the internality of the mind	p. 276
References	p. 299
Author index	p. 322
Subject index	p. 328
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