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Cognitive foundations of natural history: towards an anthropology of science

By Scott Atran

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
0521372933, 9780521372930
LCC
GN468.4 .A87 1990
Open Library ID
OL2213258M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
126 MB (132477730 bytes)
Edition
1St Edition
Pages
372\175
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

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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