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143Editorial: Folk Epistemology. The Cognitive Bases of Epistemic EvaluationReview of Philosophy and Psychology 1 (4): 477-482. 2010.Editorial: Folk Epistemology. The Cognitive Bases of Epistemic Evaluation Content Type Journal Article Pages 477-482 DOI 10.1007/s13164-010-0046-8 Authors Christophe Heintz, Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Dario Taraborelli, Centre for Research in Social Simulation, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Journal Review of Philosophy and Psychology Online ISSN 1878-5166 Print ISSN 1878-5158 Journal Volume Volume 1 Journal Issue…Read more
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26Institutions as mechanisms of cultural evolution: Prospects of the epidemiological approachBiological Theory 2 (3): 244-249. 2007.Studying institutions as part of the research on cultural evolution prompts us to analyze one very important mechanism of cultural evolution: institutions do distribute cultural variants in the population. Also, it enables relating current research on cultural evolution to some more traditional social sciences: institutions, often seen as macro-social entities, are analyzed in terms of their constitutive micro-phenomena. This article presents Sperber’s characterization of institutions, and then …Read more
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466Cognitive history and cultural epidemiologyIn Luther H. Martin & Jesper Sørensen (eds.), Past minds: studies in cognitive historiography, Equinox. 2011.Cultural epidemiology is a theoretical framework that enables historical studies to be informed by cognitive science. It incorporates insights from evolutionary psychology (viz. cultural evolution is constrained by universal properties of the human cognitive apparatus that result from biological evolution) and from Darwinian models of cultural evolution (viz. population thinking: cultural phenomena are distributions of resembling items among a community and its habitat). Its research program inc…Read more
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Social Epistemology |
Philosophy of Social Science |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Philosophy of Mathematics |
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Philosophy of Economics |
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