240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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The author examines how Darwinism has been used to explain novelty and change in culture through the Darwinian approach to creativity and the theory of memes. The first claims that creativity is based on a Darwinian process of blind variation and selection, while the latter claims that culture is based on and explained by units - memes - that are similar to genes. Both theories try to... Read more
1. Light will be thrown 2. Darwinian principles 3. The origin of novelty 4. The argument from guided variation 5. The units of culture 6. Memes or minds
Biography
Maria Kronfeldner has a Junior Professorship in Philosophy at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.
