Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Inference addresses the interface between social science and cognitive science. In this volume, Viale and colleagues explore which human social cognitive powers evolve naturally and which are influenced by culture. Updating the debate between innatism and culturalism regarding human cognitive abilities, this book represents a much-needed articulation of these diverse bases of cognition. Chapters throughout the book provide social science and philosophical reflections, in addition to the perspective of evolutionary theory and the central...
Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Inference addresses the interface between social science and cognitive science. In this volume, Viale an...
This book deals with the cognitive foundation of the theory of social action. The social sciences are still guided by models of social action, far from the empirical reality of the psychology of action. While economics seems to have made greater progress in accepting the changes to the theory of action derived from cognitive science (see, for example, the 2002 Nobel prize for economics awarded to Daniel Kahneman), sociology is still being oriented on the dualism of hermeneutics vs. structuralism, which leaves very little room for a cognitive theory of social action.
The unique...
This book deals with the cognitive foundation of the theory of social action. The social sciences are still guided by models of social action, far ...
Adding to the inaugural volume on 'Mind, Rationality, and Society', this collection of social science research presents further applications of methodological cognitivism in fields such as scientific discovery, the dissemination of technology, and innovation.
Adding to the inaugural volume on 'Mind, Rationality, and Society', this collection of social science research presents further applications of method...
