Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture

Cover -- Table of contents -- Preface by the editors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to evolutionary epistemology, language and culture -- PART 1. Evolutionary epistemology -- Evolutionary epistemology: The non-adaptationist approach -- Like cats and dogs: Radical constructivism and evolutionary epistemology -- The biological boundary conditions for our classical physical world view -- Is the real world something more than the world of our experience? Relations between Neo-Darwinism, transcendental philosophy and cognitive sciences -- Universal Darwinism and process essentialism -- PART 2. Evolutionary epistemology and language -- Darwinism, traditional linguistics and the new Palaeolithic Continuity Theory of language evolution -- The extended mind model of the origin of language and culture -- From changes in the world to changes in the words -- Evolutionary epistemology and the origin and evolution of language: Taking symbiogenesis seriously -- The self-organization of dynamic systems: modularity under scrutiny -- PART 3. Evolutionary epistemology and culture -- Against human nature -- Cognition, evolution, and sociality -- Cultural evolution, the Baldwin effect, and social norms -- Cultural creativity and evolutionary flexibility -- Some ideas to study the evolution of mathematics -- PART 4. Evolutionary epistemology and modelling -- Computer modelling as a tool for understanding language evolution -- Simulating the syntax and semantics of linguistic constructions about time -- Evolutionary game-theoretic semantics and its foundational status -- Towards a quantum evolutionary scheme: Violating Bell's inequalities in language -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Last Page.