The Symbolic Species Evolved

Buch | Hardcover
290 Seiten
2012
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-007-2335-1 (ISBN)

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Based on the Symbolic Species Conferences I, II, which took place in 2006, 2007, this volume offers contributions from a wide variety of scholars. Topics include emergence in evolution, the origin of language, the semiotic 'missing link', Peirce's semiotics in evolution and biology, and more.
This anthology is a compilation of the best contributions from Symbolic Species Conferences I, II (which took place in 2006, 2007).

In 1997 the American anthropologist Terrence Deacon published The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain. The book is widely considered a seminal work in the subject of evolutionary cognition. However, Deacons book was the first step – further steps have had to be taken. The proposed anthology is such an important associate.

The contributions are written by a wide variety of scholars each with a unique view on evolutionary cognition and the questions raised by Terrence Deacon - emergence in evolution, the origin of language, the semiotic 'missing link', Peirce's semiotics in evolution and biology, biosemiotics, evolutionary cognition, Baldwinian evolution, the neuroscience of linguistic capacities as well as phylogeny of the homo species, primatology, embodied cognition and knowledge types.

Introduction - searching the missing links.- Part I: The Biosemiotic Connection.- 1. Towards a semiotic cognitive science: why neither the phenomenological nor computational approaches are adequate.- 2. The Symbolic Species hypothesis revisited.- 3. Peirce and Deacon on meaning and the evolution of language.- 4. Semiosis beyond signs. On a two or three missing links on the way to human beings.- Part II: The Prehistoric and Comparative Connection.- 5. The natural history of intentionality. A biosemiotic approach.- 6. The evolution of learning to communicate: Avian model for the missing link.- 7. From parsing actions to understanding intentions.- 8. New non-Linnaean, neo-cladistic nomenclature and classification conventions exemplified by recent and fossil hominids.- 9. ¬¬¬¬The tripod effect: Coevolution of cooperation, cognition and communication.- Part III: The Cognitive and Anthropological Connection.- 10. Language as a repository of tacit knowledge.- 11. Levels of immersion and embodiment.- 12. Emerging symbols.- 13. Gender in innovative techno fantasies.- Epilogue.- 14. New perspectives.- Index.

Reihe/Serie Biosemiotics ; 6
Zusatzinfo XIV, 290 p.
Verlagsort Dordrecht
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Evolution
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Mineralogie / Paläontologie
Schlagworte Biosemiotics • Human cognition • Human Evolution • Origin of language • Thinking
ISBN-10 94-007-2335-0 / 9400723350
ISBN-13 978-94-007-2335-1 / 9789400723351
Zustand Neuware
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