Description: Further DetailsTitle: Cognitive GadgetsCondition: NewEAN: 9780674980150ISBN: 9780674980150Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/16/2018Item Height: 140mmItem Length: 210mmAuthor: Cecilia HeyesLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Cultural Evolution of ThinkingDescription: “This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences… Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the year.”—Tyler Cowen, Marginal RevolutionHow did human minds become so different from those of other animals? What accounts for our capacity to understand the way the physical world works, to think ourselves into the minds of others, to gossip, read, tell stories about the past, and imagine the future? These questions are not new: they have been debated by philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, evolutionists, and neurobiologists over the course of centuries. One explanation widely accepted today is that humans have special cognitive instincts. Unlike other living animal species, we are born with complicated mechanisms for reasoning about causation, reading the minds of others, copying behaviors, and using language.Cecilia Heyes agrees that adult humans have impressive pieces of cognitive equipment. In her framing, however, these cognitive gadgets are not instincts programmed in the genes but are constructed in the course of childhood through social interaction. Cognitive gadgets are products of cultural evolution, rather than genetic evolution. At birth, the minds of human babies are only subtly different from the minds of newborn chimpanzees. We are friendlier, our attention is drawn to different things, and we have a capacity to learn and remember that outstrips the abilities of newborn chimpanzees. Yet when these subtle differences are exposed to culture-soaked human environments, they have enormous effects. They enable us to upload distinctively human ways of thinking from the social world around us.As Cognitive Gadgets makes clear, from birth our malleable human minds can learn through culture not only what to think but how to think it.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Science Nature & Math, Language & ReferenceRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Cognitive Gadgets
Title: Cognitive Gadgets
EAN: 9780674980150
ISBN: 9780674980150
Release Date: 04/16/2018
Release Year: 2018
Subtitle: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Cognitive Gadgets : the Cultural Evolution of Thinking
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2018
Topic: Cognitive Science, Sociology / General, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Evolutionary Psychology, Ethnopsychology
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Science, Psychology
Item Weight: 20 oz
Author: Cecilia Heyes
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
