Darwinizing culture : the status of memetics as a science
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Darwinizing culture : the status of memetics as a science
Oxford University Press, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The publication in 1998 of Susan Blackmore's bestselling 'The meme machine' re-awakened the debate over the highly controverial field of memetics. In the past couple of years, there has been an explosion of interest in 'memes'. The one thing noticably missing though, has been any kind of proper debate over the validity of a concept regarded by many as scientifically suspect. Darwinizing culture: the status of memetics as a science pits leading
intellectuals, (both supporters and opponents of meme theory), against eachother to battle it out, and state their case. With a foreword by Daniel Dennett, and contributions from Dan Sperber, David Hull, Robert Boyd, Susan Blackmore, Henry Plotkin, and others, the result is a thrilling and challenging debate that will
perhaps mark a turning point for the field, and for future research. Superbly edited by Robert Aunger, Darwinizing culture is a thought provoking book, that will fascinate, stimulate, (and occasionally perhaps infuriate) a broad range of readers including, psychologists, biologists, philosophers, linguists, and anthropologists.
Table of Contents
- FOREWORD BY DANIEL DENNETT
- INTRODUCTION
- 'MEMES' EYE VISION (SUSAN BLACKMORE)
- TAKING MEMETICS SERIOUSLY (DAVID HULL)
- MEMES THROUGH (SOCIAL) MINDS (ROSARIA CONTE)
- CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISM (HENRY PLOTKIN)
- THE EVOLUTION OF THE MEME (KEVIN LALAND AND JOHN ODLING-SMEE)
- MEMES: UNIVERSITY ACID OR A BETTER MOUSE TRAP (ROBERT BOYD AND PETER RICHERSON)
- AN OBJECTION TO THE MEMETIC APPROACH TO CULTURE (DAN SPERBER)
- IF MEMES ARE THE ANSWER, WHAT IS THE QUESTION (ADAM KUPER)
- A WELL-DISPOSED SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST'S PROBLEM WITH MEMES (MAURICE BLOCH)
- CONCLUSION (ROBERT AUNGER)
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