BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T091415Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210122T050000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210122T120000 SUMMARY:Thinking about the Cultural Evolution of Thinking UID:20240329T091415Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Düsseldorf\, Germany\, 40225 DESCRIPTION:
The DCLPS is organising a one-day Zoom-workshop on
\n\nTHINKING ABOUT THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF THINKING
\n\nDate &\; Venue: January 22\, 2021\, Zoom
\nWebsite: http://dclps.phil.hhu.de/tacet/
\n\n\nInvited Speakers:
\n* Azita Chellappoo (Bochum)
\n* Cecilia Heyes (Oxford)
\n* Larissa Mendoza Straffon (Bergen)
\n* Samir Okasha (Bristol)
\n* Mason Youngblood (New York)
\n\n\nAbstract:
\nOver the past decades\, theories of cultural evolution gained more and more attention in the special sciences and in philosophy of science. Of particular interest is the mutual interaction and connection between culture and cognition. Culture has a huge impact on how (and what) we think and core aspects of thinking (such as memory\, causal understanding\, a theory of mind\, rationality and other 'cognitive gadgets') are responsible for the products of cultural evolution.
\n\nBoth share a Darwinian explanatory framework at their core\, involving variation\, selection\, and reproduction/transmission. However\, biological and cultural evolution differ in many important aspects and precise mechanisms &ndash\; and many of these differences originate in the fact that we face 'thinkers' and more or less rational agents in cultural evolution. For example\, cultural selection is subject to a whole range of &lsquo\;biases&rsquo\; that have no analogue in biological evolution and are mostly grounded in cognitive capacities of the cultural agents.
\n\nWhile it is the aim of the special sciences to empirically explore this vast field of possible links between culture and thinking\, social learning and cognition\, it is the aim of philosophy of science to conceptually structure and represent this growing body of research. This workshop aims at bringing together scholars of both fields to inspire dialogue and future collaborations.
\n\n\nCall for registration:
\nTo register\, please contact one of the organisers before January 22\, 2021.
\n\n\nOrganization &\; Contact:
\nKarim Baraghith and Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla
\nDuesseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science\, DCLPS\, University of Duesseldorf
\nInductive Metaphysics: a DFG funded research group\, the goal of which is to establish how empirical sources and inductive forms of inference play a role in metaphysical research
\n\n\nImportant links:
\nWorkshop website:
\nDCLPS:
\nInductive metaphysics:
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