Thought in a Hostile World

The Evolution of Human Cognition

• Author(s): Kim Sterelny,
• Publisher: Wiley
• Pages: 280
• ISBN_10: 063118886X
  ISBN_13: 9780631188865
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Philosophy / History & Surveys / General , Philosophy / General ,

Description:... WINNER OF THE 2004 LAKATOS AWARD!

Thought in a Hostile World is an exploration of the evolution of cognition, especially human cognition, by one of today's foremost philosophers of biology and of mind.

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• Featuresan exploration of the evolution of human cognition.
  
• Written by one of today’s foremost philosophers of mind and language.
  
• Presents a set of analytic tools for thinking about cognition and its evolution.
  
• Offers a critique of nativist, modular versions of evolutionary psychology, rejecting the example of language as a model for thinking about human cognitive capacities.
  
• Applies to the areas of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and evolutionary psychology.