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SUMMARY:Cultural evolution\, philosophy and the emotions
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LOCATION:Leuven\, Belgium
DESCRIPTION:<p>The past decades have witnessed a proliferation of evolutionary theories&nbsp\;on culture and cultural capacities. In general\, evolutionary theories of&nbsp\;culture have been rather well received in the philosophical literature.&nbsp\;However\, a number of important philosophical issues concerning this theory&nbsp\;remain largely unsettled. This focused conference aims to address some of&nbsp\;these issues by examining how gene-culture co-evolutionary theories can&nbsp\;explain human emotions &ndash\; a topic that has been of special importance for&nbsp\;more narrow evolutionary approaches\, such as evolutionary psychology.</p>\n<p>Below are some of the kinds of questions that we hope will be discussed in&nbsp\;the course of the conference. The list is not exhaustive\, but should be&nbsp\;read as a list of suggestions:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>What role do emotions play in cultural evolution?</li>\n<li>Which human emotions are socially transmitted?</li>\n<li>Which aspects of emotions are socially transmitted?</li>\n<li>Can gene-culture co-evolutionary theory offer a plausible account of&nbsp\;culture-bound syndromes?</li>\n<li>How can cultural evolutionary theories contribute to a more profound&nbsp\;evolutionary understanding of basic emotions?</li>\n<li>Why have emotions been neglected by cultural evolutionists?</li>\n<li>Do some cultural variants spread because they solve emotional problems?</li>\n<li>Is emotional contagion a key factor for human cooperation?</li>\n<li>Has shame/disgust/fear been culturally exapted to solve modern adaptive&nbsp\;problems?</li>\n<li>Can gene-culture co-evolutionary theories bring us any closer to a&nbsp\;unified theory of the emotions?</li>\n</ol>\n<p><strong>Information for submissions:</strong></p>\n<p>Send an abstract of c. 500 words to&nbsp\;andreas.deblock@hiw.kuleuven.be&nbsp\;before&nbsp\;December 31\, 2012. You will be notified of acceptance before January 22\,&nbsp\;2013. Please note that this will be a pre-read conference\, so there is&nbsp\;also a final paper submission deadline on April 25\, 2013. The final paper&nbsp\;should not be longer than 7000 words. We are able\, on certain conditions\,&nbsp\;to offset the costs of travel for a limited number of graduate students.&nbsp\;Please check with the organizers if you are interested.<br><br><strong>Publication:</strong></p>\n<p>We intend to publish most of the papers presented at the conference in an&nbsp\;edited volume or a special issue. We will aim high when looking for a&nbsp\;publisher. Please note\, however\, that all papers will have to go through&nbsp\;the usual process of peer review\, and that the publication of your paper&nbsp\;cannot be guaranteed.</p>\n<p><strong>Organization:</strong></p>\n<p>Organizers are Andreas De Block\, Pieter R. Adriaens and Helen De Cruz. The&nbsp\;meeting is part of a research project about the historical and&nbsp\;evolutionary roots of homophobia (&lsquo\;Homophobia and cultural evolution: A&nbsp\;Philosophical approach&rsquo\;)\, and is sponsored by the Research Foundation&nbsp\;Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)\, the Human Evolution and Behavior Network&nbsp\;(HEBEN)\, and the Institute of Philosophy (HIW\, University of Leuven).</p>
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