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Explaining Culture

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This work provides new ways of bridging the social and cognitive sciences. Suppose, it suggests, a net is cast that lets through anything but mental things, and environmental things that have mental things, both among their causes and their effects. Will peole still catch all the subject matter of the social sciences? Sperber argues that people will, and that explanations of social-cultural phenomena in this reconceptualized domain will take the form of an epidemiology of representations, grounded in evolutionary thinking and in psychology.

Language: English

Pages: 184

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Blackwell

Release: May 20, 1996

ISBN: 0631200452

ISBN 13: 9780631200451

Explaining Culture

4.1/5 ( ratings)

This work provides new ways of bridging the social and cognitive sciences. Suppose, it suggests, a net is cast that lets through anything but mental things, and environmental things that have mental things, both among their causes and their effects. Will peole still catch all the subject matter of the social sciences? Sperber argues that people will, and that explanations of social-cultural phenomena in this reconceptualized domain will take the form of an epidemiology of representations, grounded in evolutionary thinking and in psychology.

Language: English

Pages: 184

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Blackwell

Release: May 20, 1996

ISBN: 0631200452

ISBN 13: 9780631200451

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