Cognitive Foundations of Natural History
by Atran, ScottEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1993-02-01
Publisher(s): Cambridge Univ Pr
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| 1. Common sense: its scope and limits | |
| Part I. Folkbiology: 2. Folktaxonomy | |
| 3. The semantics of living kinds | |
| Part II. Aristotelian Essentials: 4. Essence and environment | |
| 5. Materials of logical division | |
| Part III. From Herbals to Systems: 6. Origins of the species concept | |
| 7. The nature of the genus | |
| Part IV. The Scientific Breakaway: 8. The method of families and classes | |
| 9. Science, symbolism and common sense | |
| Conclusions | |
| Appendix | |
| Notes | |
| References | |
| Index. |
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