![Darwinizing Culture]( "Darwinizing Culture")
Click to have a closer look
About this book
Contents
Customer reviews
Related titles
About this book
Pits leading intellectuals, (both supporters and opponents of meme theory), against each other to battle it out, in this, the first debate over 'memes'. With a foreword by Daniel Dennett, and contributions from Dan Sperber, David Hull, Robert Boyd, Susan Blackmore, Henry Plotkin, and others, the result is a thrilling and challenging debate that will perhaps mark a turning point for the field, and for future research.
Contents
FOREWORD BY DANIEL DENNETT; INTRODUCTION; 'MEMES' EYE VISION (SUSAN BLACKMORE); TAKING MEMETICS SERIOUSLY (DAVID HULL); MEMES THROUGH (SOCIAL) MINDS (ROSARIA CONTE); CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISM (HENRY PLOTKIN); THE EVOLUTION OF THE MEME (KEVIN LALAND AND JOHN ODLING-SMEE); MEMES: UNIVERSITY ACID OR A BETTER MOUSE TRAP (ROBERT BOYD AND PETER RICHERSON); AN OBJECTION TO THE MEMETIC APPROACH TO CULTURE (DAN SPERBER); IF MEMES ARE THE ANSWER, WHAT IS THE QUESTION (ADAM KUPER); A WELL-DISPOSED SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST'S PROBLEM WITH MEMES (MAURICE BLOCH); CONCLUSION (ROBERT AUNGER)
Customer Reviews
Edited By: Robert Aunger
242 pages, no illustrations
If you need a guide into the murky heat of memetics, look no further than the essays in Darwinizing Culture, which are a fine illustration of the murkiness at the heart of memetics, admirably framed by Bob Aunger's introduction and conclusion New Scientist
