Le origini culturali della cognizione umana

I am torn on this one. It is well written and includes great examples and research. I just don't buy the main hypothesis. Basically it goes something like this. Humans do in fact have posses attributes that distinguish them from animals and most modern scientists agree that the "something" is cultur Leggi tutto

Cette lecture était incroyable! Seconde livre, cette année, avec lequel je suis en accord quasi complet et défendant une perspective qui, de mon humble avis, devrait etre opposés à des paradigmes aujourd'hui dominants (je pense ici au naturalisme dur en psychologie et neuroscience et inversement au Leggi tutto

Deux millions d'années se sont écoulées depuis la séparation de la ligne homo et du dernier ancêtre commun avec les chimpanzés actuels. Au cours de la même la période, les représentants de cette ligne ne démontrent aucune transformation de mode de vie notable par rapport à la donne primitive commu Leggi tutto

Ein großer Teil des Buchs ist redundant (und ziemlich selbstreferentiell, was aber vielleicht auch daran liegt, dass es nur so wenige empirisch Forschende gibt, keine Ahnung). Vor allem das erste und das letzte Kapitel sind aber sehr lesens- und bedenkenswert, mit vielen Folgen (für die Gesellschaft Leggi tutto

Sapir-Whorf, turbocharged. Language matters, a lot.

Wszystko jest stosunkowo jasno wytłumaczone w książce plus jest ona dość ciekawa, polecam 😌

Why are we human beings and why are we not animals? The human genome is identical to non-human primate’s except for 2% of it. Even if they have a lot in common in terms of genetic material, human beings and primates are indeed much different. The most distinguishable human trait is the so-called “cu Leggi tutto

Tomasello's position is important because of the amount of criticism that it seems to be garnering in contemporary cognitive psychology and philosophy. There are a lot of important reasons for this: specious interpretation of data, dismissiveness of primate theories, a heavy emphasis on "theory of m Leggi tutto

It is a bit hard to be critical about this book. The author does a brilliant job at proposing and defending a mechanism that may be behind the advances of human cognition. He is arguing that transmission of knowledge and our ability to reflect and build on that knowledge has given rise to the sustai Leggi tutto