Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-01955-2 (ISBN)
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"Scaffolding" is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common threads in diverse applications of scaffolding, including theoretical biology, cognitive science, social theory, science and technology studies, and human development. Despite its widespread use, the concept of scaffolding is often given short shrift; the contributors to this volume, from a range of disciplines, offer a more fully developed analysis of scaffolding that highlights the role of temporal and temporary resources in development, broadly conceived, across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.
The book emphasizes reproduction, repeated assembly, and entrenchment of heterogeneous relations, parts, and processes as a complement to neo-Darwinism in the developmentalist tradition of conceptualizing evolutionary change. After describing an integration of theoretical perspectives that can accommodate different levels of analysis and connect various methodologies, the book discusses multilevel organization; differences (and reciprocality) between individuals and institutions as units of analysis; and perspectives on development that span brains, careers, corporations, and cultural cycles.
Contributors
Colin Allen, Linnda R. Caporael, James Evans, Elihu M. Gerson, Simona Ginsburg, James R. Griesemer, Christophe Heintz, Eva Jablonka, Sanjay Joshi, Shu-Chen Li, Pamela Lyon, Sergio F. Martinez, Christopher J. May, Johann Peter Murmann, Stuart A. Newman, Jeffrey C. Schank, Iddo Tavory, Georg Theiner, Barbara Hoeberg Wimsatt, William C. Wimsatt
Linnda R. Caporael is Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. James R. Griesemer is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis. William C. Wimsatt is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He was awarded the 2013 David L. Hull Prize by the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. James R. Griesemer is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis. Linnda R. Caporael is Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. William C. Wimsatt is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He was awarded the 2013 David L. Hull Prize by the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. Stuart Newman is Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at New York Medical College. Colin Allen is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the coauthor of Nature's Purposes (MIT Press, 1998), Species of Mind (MIT Press, 1997), and The Cognitive Animal (MIT Press, 2001). Simona Ginsburg is Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Sciences, retired from the Open University of Israel. Eva Jablonka is Professor at Tel-Aviv University. She is the coauthor of Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life and the coeditor of Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology, both published by the MIT Press.
| Reihe/Serie | Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 24 b&w illus., 3 tables |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 816 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-262-01955-8 / 0262019558 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-262-01955-2 / 9780262019552 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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