Evolution and the Human Mind: Modularity, Language and Meta-Cognition

ISBN: 9780521789080 出版年：2000 页码：347 Peter Carruthers Andrew Chamberlain Cambridge University Press

List of contributors Preface 1. Introduction Peter Carruthers and Andrew Chamberlain 2. Massively modular minds: evolutionary psychology and cognitive architecture Richard Samuels 3. Individual differences in early understanding of mind: genes, non-shared environment and modularity Claire Hughes and Robert Plomin 4. Darwin in the madhouse: evolutionary psychology and the classification of mental disorders Dominic Murphy and Stephen Stich 5. Evolution of the modern mind and the origins of culture: religious concepts as a limiting case Pascal Boyer 6. Symmetry and the evolution of the modular linguistic mind Thomas Wynn 7. Evolution, communication and the proper function of language Gloria Origgi and Dan Sperber 8. The evolution of knowledge David Papineau 9. Mind, brain and material culture: an archaeological perspective Steven Mithen 10. The evolution of strategic thinking Adam Morton 11. On the origin of the human mind Robin Dunbar 12. The evolution of consciousness Peter Carruthers 13. Evolution, consciousness and the internality of the mind Jim Hopkins References Author index Subject index.