Cognition in and Out of the Mind: Advances in Cultural Model Theory

ISBN-13: 9783031481802 / Angielski

Giovanni Bennardo; Victor C. de Munck; Stephen Chrisomalis

Spis treści

Introduction.

1. Cultural Model Theory.

2. Cultural Consensus Theory.

3. Evolution of Cognition and Culture.

4. From Language to Mind.

5. Normativity, Learning, and Development.

Conclusion 

O autorze

Giovanni Bennardo is a Board of Trustees Professor and Distinguished Research Professor in the department of Anthropology and the Cognitive Science Initiative at Northern Illinois University, USA. His research interests focus on linguistic, psychological, and anthropological perspectives to cognitive science. With six book publications to his credit, he also edited two special issues for World Cultures and Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science.

Victor de Munck is a Professor of Anthropology at Vilnius University, Lithuania. His current research focuses on changes in love, marriage, and family cultural models as they affect decisions to marry and have children. He is also interested in the effect of technology on these important modes of intimacy as they have been central to the reproduction and maintenance of the species and the idea of a meaningful life.

Stephen Chrisomalis is a Professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit, USA. His previous books include Numerical Notation: A Comparative History (Cambridge, 2010), Human Expeditions: Inspired by Bruce Trigger (Toronto, 2013), and Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History (MIT, 2020). He is President of the Society of Anthropological Sciences, a section of the American Anthropological Association.

Blurb

This edited collection seeks to present a new, well-defined agenda for the interdisciplinary study of anthropology and cognitive science. Featuring fifteen chapters written by international experts as well as emerging voices in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, philosophy, and cognitive science, this book aims to investigate the mental production of shared knowledge, goals, and desires around which human social life revolves. The coverage spans biological, cultural, and linguistic evolution; the importance of local histories and their ontological particulars; the effects of socio-cultural processes and technological change; the role of cultural models as mental constructs to understand and interact with the world.
Drawing on cultural model theory, this volume is an invaluable resource for linguists, cognitive scientists, anthropologists, and other social scientists willing to explore and understand how the sharedness of culture can bond us all together across relative cultural differences and (mis)perceived divisions.

Giovanni Bennardo is a Board of Trustees Professor and Distinguished Research Professor in the department of Anthropology and the Cognitive Science Initiative at Northern Illinois University, USA. His research interests focus on linguistic, psychological, and anthropological perspectives to cognitive science. With six book publications to his credit, he also edited two special issues for World Cultures and Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science.

Victor de Munck is a Professor of Anthropology at Vilnius University, Lithuania. His current research focuses on changes in love, marriage, and family cultural models as they affect decisions to marry and have children. He is also interested in the effect of technology on these important modes of intimacy as they have been central to the reproduction and maintenance of the species and the idea of a meaningful life.

Stephen Chrisomalis is a Professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit, USA. His previous books include Numerical Notation: A Comparative History (Cambridge, 2010), Human Expeditions: Inspired by Bruce Trigger (Toronto, 2013), and Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History (MIT, 2020). He is President of the Society of Anthropological Sciences, a section of the American Anthropological Association.