Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture
Search in google:
For the first time in history, scholars working on language and culture from within an evolutionary epistemological framework, and thereby emphasizing complementary or deviating theories of the Modern Synthesis, were brought together. Of course there have been excellent conferences on Evolutionary Epistemology in the past, as well as numerous conferences on the topics of Language and Culture. However, until now these disciplines had not been brought together into one all-encompassing conference. Moreover, previously there never had been such stress on alternative and complementary theories of the Modern Synthesis. Today we know that natural selection and evolution are far from synonymous and that they do not explain isomorphic phenomena in the world. ‘Taking Darwin seriously’ is the way to go, but today the time has come to take alternative and complementary theories that developed after the Modern Synthesis, equally seriously, and, furthermore, to examine how language and culture can merit from these diverse disciplines.As this volume will make clear, a specific inter- and transdisciplinary approach is one of the next crucial steps that needs to be taken, if we ever want to unravel the secrets of phenomena such as language and culture.
Introduction to evolutionary epistemology, language and culture1Evolutionary epistemology : the non-adaptationist approach33Like cats and dogs : radical constructivism and evolutionary epistemology47The biological boundary conditions for our classical physical world view67Is the real world something more than the world of our experience? : relations between neo-Darwinism, transcendental philosophy and cognitive sciences95Universal Darwinism and process essentialism109Darwinism, traditional linguistics and the new Palaeolithic Continuity Theory of language evolution121The extended mind model of the origin of language and culture149From changes in the world to changes in the words169Evolutionary epistemology and the origin and evolution of language : taking symbiogenesis seriously195The self-organization of dynamic systems : modularity under scrutiny227Against human nature259Cognition, evolution, and sociality283Cultural evolution, the Baldwin effect, and social norms313Cultural creativity and evolutionary flexibility335Some ideas to study the evolution of mathematics351Computer modelling as a tool for understanding language evolution381Simulating the syntax and semantics of linguistic constructions about time407Evolutionary game-theoretic semantics and its foundational status429Towards a quantum evolutionary scheme : violating Bell's inequalities in language453
