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Darwinian Creativity and Memetics

Autor Maria Kronfeldner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 dec 2019
The author examines how Darwinism has been used to explain novelty and change in culture through the Darwinian approach to creativity and the theory of memes. The first claims that creativity is based on a Darwinian process of blind variation and selection, while the latter claims that culture is based on and explained by units - memes - that are similar to genes. Both theories try to describe and explain mind and culture by applying Darwinism by way of analogies. The author shows that the analogies involved in these theories lead to claims that give either wrong or at least no new descriptions or explanations of the phenomena at issue. Whereas the two approaches are usually defended or criticized on the basis that they are dangerous for our vision of ourselves, this book takes a different perspective: it questions the acuteness of these approaches. Darwinian theory is not like a dangerous wolf, hunting for our self image. Far from it, in the case of the two analogical applications addressed in this book, Darwinian theory is shown to behave more like a disoriented sheep in wolf's clothing.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367872205
ISBN-10: 036787220X
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Light will be thrown 2. Darwinian principles 3. The origin of novelty 4. The argument from guided variation 5. The units of culture 6. Memes or minds

Notă biografică

Maria Kronfeldner has a Junior Professorship in Philosophy at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.

Descriere

Examines how Darwinism has been used to explain novelty and change in culture through the Darwinian approach to creativity and the theory of memes. This title shows that the analogies involved in these theories lead to claims that give either wrong or at least no new descriptions or explanations of the phenomena at issue.