Darwinizing Culture
The Status of Memetics as a Science
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 January 2001
- ISBN 9780192632449
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 242x162x19 mm
- Weight 545 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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, in this, the first debate over 'memes'. 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.
MoreLong description:
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.
A stimulating snapshot of the state of memetics from the year 1999. I recommend it to anyone interested in the history and development of the field.
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)
