How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind?
In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel C. Dennett builds on recent discoveries from biology and computer science to show, step by step, how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. A crucial shift occurred when humans developed the ability to share memes, or ways of doing things not based in genetic instinct. Competition among memes produced thinking tools powerful enough that our minds don't just perceive and react, they create and comprehend.
An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers and scientists, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain all those curious about how the mind works.
Автор: Renn, Jurgen Название: Evolution of knowledge ISBN: 0691218595 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691218595 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3485.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Two sisters, four nights, one city.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, its going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.Many wont make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey - one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman - as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz, These Days is a timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay
Автор: Lewens Tim Название: Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges ISBN: 019880119X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198801191 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7642.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tim Lewens explores what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why this approach is often treated with suspicion. He makes an original case for the value of evolutionary thinking for students of culture, and shows why the concerns of sceptics should not be dismissed as mere prejudice, confusion, or ignorance.
Автор: Roger M. White , M.J.S. Hodge , Gregory Radick Название: Darwin`s Argument by Analogy ISBN: 1108477283 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108477284 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12355.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book sets out an original perspective on the argument for one of the most important theories in the history of science: Charles Darwin`s theory of natural selection. The book will appeal to students, scholars and scientists interested in Darwin`s On the Origin of Species.
Описание: Bowler charts developments in thinking about progress using the emergence of Darwinism in biology to throw light on parallel changes in the understanding of social development. He shows how linear models of progress headed toward a final goal have been replaced by open-ended views defined by innovation and diversity.
Описание: Concerned about our planet`s welfare? Want a better, more spiritually illuminated world? New to the work of Rudolf Steiner? Then this book is for you. Making Steiner`s philosophy accessible to the modern mind and soul, it shows how to engage with the spiritual forces directing the Earth`s destined transformation into the planet of Love.
Автор: Niall Shanks, C. Ray Greek Название: Animal Models in Light of Evolution ISBN: 1599425025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781599425023 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 8959.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Cleland Carol E Название: Quest for a Universal Theory of Life ISBN: 052187324X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521873246 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10611.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Explores the nature, origin, and extent of life in the universe from both scientific and philosophical perspectives, focusing particularly on the challenge of formulating a universal theory of life in relation to the search for extraterrestrial life. It is a valuable resource for those studying astrobiology and the origins of life.
Автор: Tauber Alfred Название: Immunity ISBN: 019091419X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190914196 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Modern immunology traditionally conceives of the immune system as providing defense against pathogens. Alfred I. Tauber criticizes this conception of immunity as too narrow, because it discounts much of the immune system's other normal functions. These include active tolerance of nutritional exchanges with the environment and the stabilization of cooperative relationships with resident micro-organisms. An expanded account extends immunity's functional role from singular 'defense' to broadened discernment of environmental 'exchange.' This ecological perspective has profound theoretical implications, for the basic notion of immune identity is reconfigured: highlighting the organism as a holobiont (a consortium of diverse organisms living in cooperative relationships) challenges prevailing concepts of individuality and the self/nonself dichotomy heretofore organizing immune theory. Indeed, if theoretical interest is focused on the challenges of maintaining immune balance in the full ecological context of the organism, then immune regulation assumes new complexity. Tauber maintains that the key to unravelling that puzzle requires a critical re-assessment of the cognitive processes that underlie immune effector functions. Accordingly, he provides the outline of a re-formulated 'cognitive paradigm' that dispenses with agent-based models and adopts an ecologically conceived understanding of perception and information processing. The implications of this revised configuration of immunity and its deconstructed notions of individuality and selfhood have wide significance for philosophers and life scientists working in immunology, ecology, and the cognitive sciences.
Автор: Jeler Название: Multilevel Selection and the Theory of Evolution ISBN: 3319786768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319786766 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
1. Chapter 1: Introduction (Ciprian Jeler)
Part I: Historical issues: Multilevel selection and the theory of evolution during the twentieth century
Chapter 2: The Roots of Multilevel Selection Theory: Concepts of Biological Individuality in the Early Twentieth Century (Abraham H. Gibson, Christina L. Kwapich, and Martha Lang)
Chapter 3: Tales of a failed scientific revolution. Wynne-Edwards' 'Animal Dispersion'(Mihail-Valentin Cernea)
Chapter 4: Equivalence, Interactors, and Lloyd's Challenge to Genic Pluralism (Ryan Ketcham)
Part II: Conceptual issues: Higher-level causes, fitnesses and traits
Chapter 5: Price's hierarchical equation and the notion of group fitness (Ciprian Jeler)
Chapter 6: A backward question about multilevel selection: can species selection help disentangle the notion of group selection? (Andreea Eşanu)
Автор: Gebhard Geiger Название: Evolutionary Instability ISBN: 3540518088 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540518082 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The scope of this book can be described best as a compilation of papers presented to an imaginary interdisciplinary conference on philosophical and material problems of biosocial evolution. The conference is espe- cially designed to discuss unifying theoretical approaches to pheno- mena of both increasing structural complexity ("natural self-organi- sation") and biosocial adaptation. Among the contributors to the confe- rence are mathematical system theoretists, philosophers of science, theoretical population biologists, and social scientists. The only diffe- rence to a real conference of this kind is that all contributions are deli- vered by one and the same author, who also tries to integrate them to some higher degree than can normally be attained in conference papers. Technically, this integration amounts to the embedding of the biobeha- vioural concepts of evolutionarily stable and unstable strategies into the framework of the structure and stability of hierarchical systems. When embarking on my work on philosophical and interdisciplinary problems of the life sciences about 6 years ago, I decided not to contri- bute to the obscurantist talk of - horribile dictu - "emergence," "onto- logical reductionism" and the like contaminating the recent sociobio- logy debate. I rather found it a genuinely philosophical task to analyse this talk, and so I attempted to recast the relevant concepts and princip- les into a form allowing for definite conclusions. Among other things, which I hope the reader will find more pleasant, this attempt had some unfortunate effect, however.
Автор: Smit Название: The Social Evolution of Human Nature ISBN: 1107055199 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107055193 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14890.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book sheds new light on the problem of how the human mind evolved. Harry Smit argues that current explanations misguidedly use variants of the Cartesian conception of the mind. The author shows that combining the Aristotelian conception with Darwin`s theory provides us with far more interesting answers.
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