Darwinizing culture : the status of memetics as a science / edited by Robert Aunger ; with a foreword by Daniel Dennett.

Contributor(s):

Aunger, Robert [editor.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0192632442
9780192632449

Other title:

Darwinising culture : The status of memetics as a science

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

302.12 21

LOC classification:

HM1041 .D37 2000

Contents:

Foreword / Daniel Dennett -- Introduction / Robert Aunger -- The memes' eye view / Susan Blackmore -- Taking memetics seriously: memetics will be what we make it / David Hull -- Culture and psychological mechanisms / Henry Plotkin -- Memes through (social) minds / Rosaria Conte -- The evolution of the meme / Kevin Laland and John Odling-Smee -- Memes: universal acid or a better mousetrap? / Robert Boyd and Peter J. 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 problems with memes / Maurice Bloch -- Conclusion / Robert Aunger.

Review: "The publication in 1998 of Susan Blackmore's bestselling The meme machine re-awakened the debate over the highly controversial field of memetics and, in the past couple of years there has been an explosion of interest in 'memes'. However, the one thing noticeably missing 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 each other 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The publication in 1998 of Susan Blackmore's bestselling The meme machine re-awakened the debate over the highly controversial field of memetics and, in the past couple of years there has been an explosion of interest in 'memes'. However, the one thing noticeably missing 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 each other 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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