Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: HUMAN SOCIETIES THROUGH THE LENS OF NATURE -- SIX PROBLEMS IN SEARCH OF A NEW SCIENCE -- ONE: What Is the Root of Group Conflict? Why "Tribalism" Is Not an Urge but a Computation -- TWO: What Is...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven
Yale University Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Further subjects: | B
Cognition and culture
B Electronic books |
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Boyer, Pascal: Minds Make Societies : How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create. - New Haven : Yale University Press,c2018. - 9780300223453 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: HUMAN SOCIETIES THROUGH THE LENS OF NATURE -- SIX PROBLEMS IN SEARCH OF A NEW SCIENCE -- ONE: What Is the Root of Group Conflict? Why "Tribalism" Is Not an Urge but a Computation -- TWO: What Is Information For? Sound Minds, Odd Beliefs, and the Madness of Crowds -- THREE: Why Are There Religions? . . . And Why Are They Such a Recent Thing? -- FOUR: What Is the Natural Family? From Sex to Kinship to Dominance -- FIVE: How Can Societies Be Just? How Cooperative Minds Create Fairness and Trade, and the Apparent Conflict between Them -- SIX: Can Human Minds Understand Societies? Coordination, Folk Sociology, and Natural Politics -- CONCLUSION: COGNITION AND COMMUNICATION CREATE TRADITIONS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z |
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| ISBN: | 0300235178 |