Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition

ISBN: 978-0-631-18886-5

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280 pages

September 2003, Wiley-Blackwell

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Featuresan exploration of the evolution of human cognition.
Written by one of today’s foremost philosophers of mind and language.
Presents a set of analytic tools for thinking about cognition and its evolution.
Offers a critique of nativist, modular versions of evolutionary psychology, rejecting the example of language as a model for thinking about human cognitive capacities.
Applies to the areas of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and evolutionary psychology.