ENGLISH

The Symbolic Species Evolved

By Frederik Stjernfelt , Theresa Schilhab , Terrence W. Deacon (auth.) , Terrence Deacon (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2012
ISBN
9400723350, 9789400723351, 9400723369, 9789400723368
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-2336-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2275494 bytes)
Series
Biosemiotics 6
Edition
1
Pages
290\304
Topic
Psychology
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-12-08 21:50:38
Evolutionary Biology; Neurosciences; Epistemology;

Description

This anthology is a compilation of the best contributions from Symbolic Species Conferences I, II (which took place in 2006, 2007). In 1997 the American anthropologist Terrence Deacon published The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain. The book is widely considered a seminal work in the subject of evolutionary cognition. However, Deacons book was the first step – further steps have had to be taken. The proposed anthology is such an important associate. The contributions are written by a wide variety of scholars each with a unique view on evolutionary cognition and the questions raised by Terrence Deacon - emergence in evolution, the origin of language, the semiotic 'missing link', Peirce's semiotics in evolution and biology, biosemiotics, evolutionary cognition, Baldwinian evolution, the neuroscience of linguistic capacities as well as phylogeny of the homo species, primatology, embodied cognition and knowledge types.

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