Book ID: CBB001510224

Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition (2014)

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Caporael, Linnda R. (Editor)
Griesemer, James R. (Editor)
Wimsatt, William C. (Editor)


The MIT Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: xiv + 426 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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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Review Charbonneau, Mathieu (2015) Review of "Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (pp. 228-230). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Griesemer, James R. (2014) Reproduction and the Scaffolded Development of Hybrids. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

Chapter Caporael, Linnda R. (2014) Evolution, Groups and Scaffolded Minds. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

Chapter Wimsatt, William C. (2014) Entrenchment and Scaffolding: An Architecture for a Theory of Cultural Change. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

Chapter Newman, Stuart A. (2014) Excitable Media in Media Res: How Physics Scaffolds Metazoan Development and Evolution. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

Chapter Evans, James A. (2014) Communication and the Evolution of Cognition. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

Chapter Schank, Jeffrey C.; May, Christopher J.; Joshi, Sanjay (2014) Models as Scaffolds for Understanding. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

Chapter Lyon, Pamela (2014) Stress in Mind: A Stress Response Hypothesis of Cognitive Evolution. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

Chapter Theiner, Georg (2014) Onwards and Upwards with the Extended Mind: From Individual to Collective Epistemic Action. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

Chapter Heintz, Christophe (2014) Scaffolding on Core Cognition. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

Chapter Allen, Colin (2014) Symbols as Scaffolding. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

Chapter Martinez, Sergio F. (2014) Technological Scaffoldings for the Evolution of Culture and Cognition. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

Chapter Gerson, Elihu M. (2014) Some Problems of Analyzing Cultural Evolution. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

Chapter Murmann, Johann Peter (2014) Scaffolding in Economics, Management, and the Design of Technologies. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

Chapter Tavory, Iddo; Ginsburg, Simona; Jablonka, Eva (2014) The Reproduction of the Social: A Developmental System Approach. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

Chapter Li, Shu-Chen (2014) Biocultural Co-Construction of Brain Plasticity across the Lifespan: From Cognitive Training to Neurotransmitters. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

Chapter Wimsatt, Barbara Horberg (2014) Footholds and Handholds: Scaffolding Cognition and Career. In: Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Fasolo, Aldo
Bernardi, Massimo
Jin, Xiaoxing
Menegon, Michele
Bellati, Adriana
Thompson, Paul Murray
Concepts
Evolution
Biology
Darwinism
Evolutionary developmental biology
Science and culture
Philosophy of science
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Peru
South America
Europe
China
Great Britain
Brazil
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