Darwinian Creativity and Memetics
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A01=Maria Kronfeldner
analogical reasoning
analogy
Author_Maria Kronfeldner
Basic Cognitive Processes
Blind Variation
Brain Patterns
Category=QD
Compatibility Argument
Copy Fidelity
critique of memetic explanations
cultural evolution
Darwinian Creativity
Developmental Constraints
Differential Spread
Dual Inheritance Theories
ects
eff
egoism
Egoism Analogy
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
evolutionary epistemology
Explanatory Dilemma
Fitness Differences
gene
Gene Selectionism
Genetic Algorithms
guided variation
Hidden Chaos
High Copy Fidelity
Knowledge Acquisition
Lamarckian Mechanism
Material Identification Problem
ontological
Ontological Analogy
philosophy of science
selectionism
selectionist theory
selective
Selective Environment
Selfish Memes
Single Mechanism Account
undirected
Undirected Variation
variation
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780367872205
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The author examines how Darwinism has been used to explain novelty and change in culture through the Darwinian approach to creativity and the theory of memes. The first claims that creativity is based on a Darwinian process of blind variation and selection, while the latter claims that culture is based on and explained by units - memes - that are similar to genes. Both theories try to describe and explain mind and culture by applying Darwinism by way of analogies. The author shows that the analogies involved in these theories lead to claims that give either wrong or at least no new descriptions or explanations of the phenomena at issue. Whereas the two approaches are usually defended or criticized on the basis that they are dangerous for our vision of ourselves, this book takes a different perspective: it questions the acuteness of these approaches. Darwinian theory is not like a dangerous wolf, hunting for our self image. Far from it, in the case of the two analogical applications addressed in this book, Darwinian theory is shown to behave more like a disoriented sheep in wolf's clothing.
Maria Kronfeldner has a Junior Professorship in Philosophy at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.
