The Symbolic Species Evolved

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Schilhab, Theresa (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Stjernfelt, Frederik (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Deacon, Terrence (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Σειρά: Biosemiotics, 6
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Neurosciences.; Epistemology.; Paleontology.; Evolutionary biology.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.

Scientific considerations about the origin of humanity might not be entirely new. However, the articles in this volume present a spectrum/variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives which no doubt calls attention and dares to present the span of the problem. The reader is inspired to contin...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction - searching the missing links
• Part I: The Biosemiotic Connection
• 1. Towards a semiotic cognitive science: why neither the phenomenological nor computational approaches are adequate
• 2. The Symbolic Species hypothesis revisited
• 3. Peirce and Deacon on meaning and the evolution of language
• 4. Semiosis beyond signs. On a two or three missing links on the way to human beings
• Part II: The Prehistoric and Comparative Connection
• 5. The natural history of intentionality. A biosemiotic approach
• 6. The evolution of learning to communicate: Avian model for the missing link
• 7. From parsing actions to understanding intentions
• 8. New non-Linnaean, neo-cladistic nomenclature and classification conventions exemplified by recent and fossil hominids
• 9. ¬¬¬¬The tripod effect: Coevolution of cooperation, cognition and communication
• Part III: The Cognitive and Anthropological Connection
• 10. Language as a repository of tacit knowledge
• 11. Levels of immersion and embodiment
• 12. Emerging symbols
• 13. Gender in innovative techno fantasies
• Epilogue
• 14. New perspectives
• Index.