Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition
by Caporael, Linnda R. Griesemer, James R. Wimsatt, William C.
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 …
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- Full title :Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition / edited by Linnda R. Caporael, James R. Griesemer, and William C. Wimsatt.
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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.
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- Publication Date:2014
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- Publisher(s):The MIT Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 426 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780262019552, 0262019558, 0262314770, 9780262314770, 9780262314787, 0262314789
- oclc:ocn827724455
- LC Classification:QH360.5
- Dewey Decimal:576.8
Table of Contents
Reproduction and the scaffolded development of hybrids / James R. Griesemer -- Evolution, groups and scaffolded minds / Linnda R. Caporael -- Entrenchment and scaffolding : an architecture for a theory of cultural change / William C. Wimsatt -- Excitable media in media RES : how physics scaffolds metazoan development and evolution / Stuart A. Newman -- Communication and the evolution of cognition / James A. Evans -- Models as scaffolds for understanding / Jeffrey C. Schank, Christopher J. May, and Sanjay Joshi -- Stress in mind : a stress response hypothesis of cognitive evolution / Pamela Lyon -- Onwards and upwards with the extended mind : from individual to collective epistemic action / Georg Theiner -- Scaffolding on core cognition / Christophe Heintz -- Symbols as scaffolding / Colin Allen -- Technological scaffoldings for the evolution of culture and cognition / Sergio F. Martinez -- Some problems of analyzing cultural evolution / Elihu M. Gerson -- Scaffolding in economics, management, and the design of technologies / Johann Peter Murmann -- The reproduction of the social : a developmental system approach / Iddo Tavory, Simona Ginsburg, and Eva Jablonka -- Biocultural co-co…
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