Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture: A Non-Adaptationist, Systems Theoretical Approach (Hardcover)

Preface by the editors , Acknowledgements,Introduction to evolutionary epistemology, language and culture;Nathalie Gontier PART 1: Evolutionary Epistemology Evolutionary Epistemology: The nonadaptationist approach, Franz M. Wuketits Like cats and dogs: Radical constructivism and evolutionary epistemology,Alexander Riegler The biological boundary conditions for our classical physical world view,Olaf Diettrich Is the real world something more than the world of our experience? Relation between Neodarwinian logic, transcendental philosophy and cognitive sciences,Adrianna Wozniak Universal Darwinism and process essentialism,Derek Turner PART 2: Evolutionary Epistemology and Language Darwinism, traditional linguistics and the new Palaeolithic Continuity Theory of language evolution ,Mario Alinei The extended mind model of the origin of language and culture,Robert K. Logan From changes in the world to changes in the words, Jean-Philippe Mague Evolutionary epistemology and the origin an evolution of language: taking symbiogenesis seriously, Nathalie Gontier The self-organization of dynamic systems: modularity under scrutiny,Annemarie Peltzer-Karpf PART 3: Evolutionary Epistemology and Culture Against human nature, Tim Ingold Cognition, evolution, and sociality, Eugenia Ramirez-Goicoechea Cultural evolution, the Baldwin effect, and social norms, Jean Lachapelle, Luc Faucher and Pierre Poirier Cultural creativity and evolutionary flexibility, Kathleen Coessens Some ideas to study the evolution of mathematics, Hugo Mercier PART 4: Evolutionary Epistemology and Modelling Computer modelling as a tool for understanding language evolution,Bart de Boer Simulating the syntax and semantics of linguistic constructions about time, Joachim De Beule Evolutionarygame-theoretic semantics and its foundational status, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen Towards a quantum evolutionary scheme: violating Bell's inequalities in language, Diederik Aerts, Marek Czachor and Bart D'Hooghe Author Index , Subject Index