Cognitive Foundations of Natural History Towards an Anthropology of Science

Name: Cognitive Foundations of Natural History Towards an Anthropology of Science
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ISBN: 9780521438711

ISBN-10: 0521438713

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Authors: Scott Atran

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What is it about human nature that makes our species capable of thinking scientifically? Inspired by a debate between Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget, Scott Atran traces the development of natural history from Aristotle to Darwin, and demonstrates how the science of plants and animals has emerged from the common conceptions of folkbiology. The author proceeds not only from the more traditional philosophical, historical or sociological perspectives, but from a point of view he considers more basic and necessary to all of these: that of cognition.

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List price: $52.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/29/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface



Common Sense: Its Scope and Limits


Introduction



Folkbiology



Folktaxonomy



In the beginning ....



A basic level



Life-forms



Exceptions that prove the rule



Family fragments



The Semantics of Living Kinds



Domain specificity



Meaning as a motley



Nature and necessity



Phenomenal reality and nomic theory



Kinds of natural kinds



Aristotelian Essentials



Essence and Environment



Essentialism reconsidered



"Induction"



Form and matter



Materials of Logical Division



Genos and Eidos



Division and assembly



Analogy



Failure's triumph



From Herbals to Systems



Origins of the Species Concept



Back to nature



Charting new territory



Species forever



Omnia ex ovo



The Nature of the Genus



Fruits of reason



Trial and error



Art and intuition



Paradise regained



The Scientific Breakaway



The Method of Families and Classes



Stress and strain



And the walls came tumbling down



Piecing together the fragments



Organization



End of series



Science, Symbolism and Common Sense



Savage savvy



Cognitive "pathogenesis"



Speculating



Plants as animals



The analogy of nature



Man dethroned



Dispositions to susceptibilities


Conclusions



Rudiments of the Linnaean Hierarchy: Towards an Anthropology of Science



Milestones of Natural History


Notes


References


Index