Beyond the Meme - Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution

Alan C. Love is professor of philosophy and director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota.¿
William C. Wimsatt is Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Chicago, and Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts and professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality.

Summary

Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time How do cultures change? In recent decades, the concept of the meme, posited as a basic unit of culture analogous to the gene, has been central to debates about cultural transformation. Despite the appeal o

Product details

• Authors: Alan C. (EDT)/ Wimsatt Love, Alan C. Wimsatt Love
• Assisted by: Alan C. Love (Editor), William Wimsatt (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781517906894
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-0689-4
• No. of pages: 576
• Series: Minnesota Studies in the Philo; Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science; Minnesota Studies in the Philo
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology