Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition

Developing scaffolds in evolution, cultu

📁 Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition

✍ Griesemer, James R.; Wimsatt, William C.; Caporael, Linnda R. 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 The MIT Press 🌐 English

'Scaffolding' is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common threads in diverse applications of scaffolding, including theoretical biology cognitive science, social theory, science and technology studies, and human development. Despite its widespread us

Developing scaffolds in evolution, cultu

📁 Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition

✍ Griesemer, James R.; Wimsatt, William C.; Caporael, Linnda R. 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 The MIT Press 🌐 English

'Scaffolding' is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common threads in diverse applications of scaffolding, including theoretical biology cognitive science, social theory, science and technology studies, and human development. Despite its widespread us

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Ev

📁 The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Evolution and Cognition)

✍ Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, that culture

Culture and cognitive development: studi

📁 Culture and cognitive development: studies in mathematical understanding

✍ Saxe, Geoffrey B 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Psychology Press 🌐 English

pt. 1. Culture and cognition : a method of study -- pt. 2. Component 1: emergent mathematical goals -- pt. 3. Component 2: form-function shifts in candy sellers' mathematics -- pt. 4. Component 3: the interplay between learning in and out of school -- pt. 5. Culture and cognitive development.

Beyond the Meme: Development and Structu

📁 Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution

✍ Alan C. Love; William C. Wimsatt 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 University of Minnesota Press 🌐 English

Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time How do cultures change? In recent decades, the concept of the meme, posited as a basic unit of culture analogous to the gene, has been central to debates about

The Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and C

📁 The Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and Cognition (Evolution and Cognition Series)

✍ Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich (editors) 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition

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