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Darwinian creativity and memetics

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Maria Kronfeldner examines how Darwinism has been used to explain novelty and change in culture through the Darwinian approach to creativity and the theory of memes.

The first claims that creativity is based on a Darwinian process of blind variation and selection, while the latter claims that culture is based on and explained by units - memes - that are similar to genes.

Both theories try to describe and explain mind and culture by applying Darwinism by way of analogies.

Kronfeldner shows that the analogies involved in these theories lead to claims that give either wrong or at least no new descriptions or explanations of the phenomena at issue.

Whereas the two approaches are usually defended or criticized on the basis that they are dangerous for our vision of ourselves, this book takes a different perspective: it questions the acuteness of these approaches.

Darwinian theory is not like a dangerous wolf, hunting for our self image.

Far from it, in the case of the two analogical applications addressed in this book, Darwinian theory is shown to behave more like a disoriented sheep in wolf's clothing.

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Routledge
1317544927 / 9781317544920
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
11/09/2014
England
English
159 pages
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