Culture, nature, memes.

9781847186638

Culture, nature, memes.

Ed. by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein.

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

2008

233 pages

$52.99

Hardcover

BF311

Continental and analytical approaches rub shoulders as geographically diverse scholars of philosophy observe cognitive processes in culture, in nature, and in memes--here characterized as an area between culture and nature. The essays consider such matters as cultural discourse analysis and the cognitive processes, testimony and the epistemic status of testimony-based beliefs, the emergence of intentionality, how emotions shape thoughts, a case against cultural difference, and how insisting too much on the genetic analogy will turn the meme into a straightjacket.

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