Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262019558 ISBN 13: 9780262019552

Verlag: MIT Press Ltd, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.

"Scaffolding" is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common threads in diverse applications of scaffolding, including theoretical biology, cognitive science, social theory, science and technology studies, and human development. Despite its widespread use, the concept of scaffolding is often given short shrift; the contributors to this volume, from a range of disciplines, offer a more fully developed analysis of scaffolding that highlights the role of temporal and temporary resources in development, broadly conceived, across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.

The book emphasizes reproduction, repeated assembly, and entrenchment of heterogeneous relations, parts, and processes as a complement to neo-Darwinism in the developmentalist tradition of conceptualizing evolutionary change. After describing an integration of theoretical perspectives that can accommodate different levels of analysis and connect various methodologies, the book discusses multilevel organization; differences (and reciprocality) between individuals and institutions as units of analysis; and perspectives on development that span brains, careers, corporations, and cultural cycles.

Contributors
Colin Allen, Linnda R. Caporael, James Evans, Elihu M. Gerson, Simona Ginsburg, James R. Griesemer, Christophe Heintz, Eva Jablonka, Sanjay Joshi, Shu-Chen Li, Pamela Lyon, Sergio F. Martinez, Christopher J. May, Johann Peter Murmann, Stuart A. Newman, Jeffrey C. Schank, Iddo Tavory, Georg Theiner, Barbara Hoeberg Wimsatt, William C. Wimsatt

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James R. Griesemer is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262019558
• ISBN 13: 9780262019552
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 440
• Herausgeber: Caporael Linnda R., Griesemer James R., Wimsatt William C.
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