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9780192632449

Darwinizing Culture The Status of Memetics as a Science

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    9780192632449

  • ISBN10:

    0192632442

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-01-11
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The publication in 1998 of Susan Blackmore's bestselling 'The Meme Machine' re-awakened the debate over the highly controversial field of memetics. In the past few years, there has been an explosion of interest in 'memes'. The one thing noticeably missing has been any kind of proper debate over the validity of a concept regarded by many as scientifically suspect. This book pits leading intellectuals, (both supporters and opponents of meme theory), against each other to battle it out, and state their case. With a forward by Daniel Dennett, and contributions form Dan Sperber, David Hll, 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, this 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Daniel Dennett
List of contributors
x
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction
1(24)
Robert Aunger
The memes' eye view
25(18)
Susan Blackmore
Taking memetics seriously: Memetics will be what we make it
43(26)
David Hull
Culture and psychological mechanisms
69(14)
Henry Plotkin
Memes through (social) minds
83(38)
Rosaria Conte
The evolution of the meme
121(22)
Kevin Laland
John Odling-Smee
Memes: Universal acid or a better mousetrap?
143(20)
Robert Boyd
Peter J. Richerson
An objection to the memetic approach to culture
163(12)
Dan Sperber
If memes are the answer, what is the question?
175(14)
Adam Kuper
A well-disposed social anthropologist's problems with memes
189(16)
Maurice Bloch
Conclusion
205(28)
Robert Aunger
Index 233

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