Evolution and the Human Mind: Modularity, Language and Meta-Cognition
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 volume will be of great interest to all researchers and students interested in the evolution and nature of the mind.
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This volume of essays offers an interdisciplinary examination of the evolution of the human mind. Booknews Philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, and archaeologists explore how evolutionary considerations can illuminate the basic architecture of the human mind. They focus especially on issues to do with the modularity of the mind, the evolution and significance of natural language, and the evolution of the capacity to think about thinking. Among the topics are evolutionary psychology and the classification of mental disorders, the evolution of strategic thinking, and symmetry and the evolution of the modular linguistic mind. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
List of contributorsPreface1Introduction12Massively modular minds: evolutionary psychology and cognitive architecture133Individual differences in early understanding of mind: genes, non-shared environment and modularity474Darwin in the madhouse: evolutionary psychology and the classification of mental disorders625Evolution of the modern mind and the origins of culture: religious concepts as a limiting-case936Symmetry and the evolution of the modular linguistic mind1137Evolution, communication and the proper function of language1408The evolution of knowledge1709Mind, brain and material culture: an archaeological perspective20710The evolution of strategic thinking21811On the origin of the human mind23812The evolution of consciousness25413Evolution, consciousness and the internality of the mind276References299Author index322Subject index328
\ BooknewsPhilosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, and archaeologists explore how evolutionary considerations can illuminate the basic architecture of the human mind. They focus especially on issues to do with the modularity of the mind, the evolution and significance of natural language, and the evolution of the capacity to think about thinking. Among the topics are evolutionary psychology and the classification of mental disorders, the evolution of strategic thinking, and symmetry and the evolution of the modular linguistic mind. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
