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    The Evolution of Distinctively Human Cognition

    What makes humans cognitively unique, and why are we unique in these ways? Armin W. Schulz suggests that the singularity of our ways of thinking is based in a positive feedback loop that joins innate representations, forms of cultural learning, and technology. This feedback loop explains a number of key applications of our cognitive abilities, from our industriousness through trade, our ... Read more

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  • Structure, Evidence, and Heuristic

    Evolutionary Biology, Economics, and the Philosophy of Their Relationship

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    This book is the first systematic treatment of the philosophy of science underlying evolutionary economics. It does not advocate an evolutionary approach towards economics, but rather assesses the epistemic value of appealing to evolutionary biology in economics more generally.The author divides work in evolutionary economics into three distinct, albeit related, forms: a structural form, an ... Read more

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  • Efficient Cognition

    The Evolution of Representational Decision Making

    An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.Many organisms (including humans) make decisions by relying on mental representations. Not simply a reaction triggered by perception, representational decision making employs high-level, non-perceptual mental states with content to manage ... Read more

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  • Presentist Social Functionalism: Bringing Contemporary Evolutionary Biology to the Social Sciences

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book presents and defends a new approach towards social functionalism: Presentist Social Functionalism. This approach draws on recent developments in evolutionary biology and philosophy of biology to provide a more compelling theoretical foundation for functionalist social analysis. Functionalist approaches to the social sciences—which aim at using facts about what social ... Read more

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