Rules as the Impetus of Cultural Evolution

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11245-013-9219-2" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11245-013-9219-2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11245-013-9219-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11245-013-9219-2</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Rules as the Impetus of Cultural Evolution
Original language description
In this paper I put forward a thesis regarding the anatomy of ?cultural evolution?, in particular the way the ?cultural? transmission of behavioral patterns came to piggyback, through us humans, on the transmission effected by genetic evolution. I claimthat what grounds and supports this new kind of transmission is a complex behavioral ?meta-pattern? that makes it possible to grasp a pattern as something that ?ought to be?, i.e. that transforms the pattern into what we can call a rule. (Here I draw especially on the philosophical insights of Wilfrid Sellars.) In this way I interlink empirical research done in evolution theory with some more speculative philosophical theories, thus shedding new light on the former and adding an empirical footing to thelatter.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
OECD FORD branch
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Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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