Darwinizing culture : the status of memetics as a science / edited by Robert Aunger ; with a foreword by Daniel Dennett.

Date:
2000
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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xii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Daniel Dennett -- Introduction / Robert Aunger -- The memes' eye view / Susan Blackmore / Taking memetics seriously: memetics will be what we make it / David Hull -- Culture and psychological mechanisms / Henry Plotkin -- Memes through (social) minds / Rosaria Conte -- The evolution of the meme / Kevin Laland and John Odling-Smee -- Memes: universal acid or a better mousetrap? / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson -- An objection to the memetic approach to culture / Dan Sperber -- If memes are the answer, what is the question? / Adam Kuper -- A well-disposed social anthropologist's problems with memes / Maurice Bloch -- Conclusion / Robert Aunger.

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  • 0192632442