- 320 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
In The Extended Mind, Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind, and culture.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART 1. On the Origin and Evolution of Language
- 1. The History of the Study of the Origin of Language
- PART 2. The Extended Mind Model
- 2. The Evolution of Notated Language
- 3. The Extended Mind Model of the Origin of Language
- 4. A Grand Unification Theory of Human Thought and Culture
- PART 3. Comparison and Synthesis of Other Approaches to the Origin of Language
- 5. How Universal Is Universal Grammar? Chomsky’s Generative Grammar
- 6. Is the Primary Function of Language Social Communication or the Representation of Abstract Thought?
- 7. What Are the Mechanisms That Led to Spoken Language?
- 8. Ontogeny and Language
- 9. Phylogeny or the Evolutionary History of Language
- PART 4. The Synthesis of the Extended Mind Model with Other Approaches
- 10. The Synthesis of Five Approaches to the Origin of Language
- 11. Overlaps of the Extended Mind Model with the Work of Clark, Jackendoff, and Schumann
- PART 5. The Co-evolution of Culture: Language and Altruism and the Emergence of Universal Culture
- 12. The Co-evolution of Culture and Language
- 13. Altruism and the Origin of Language and Culture
- 14. Culture as an Organism and the Emergence of Universal Culture
- Epilogue: The Propagating Organization of Language and Culture
- References
- Index