Cultural Evolution, Philosophy and the Emotions

  • Marion K Godman (Speaker: Presenter)

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Description

Culture-bound syndromes are socially learned but not socially constructed

The past decades have witnessed a proliferation of evolutionary theories on culture and cultural capacities. In general, evolutionary theories of culture have been rather well received in the philosophical literature. However, a number of important philosophical issues concerning this theory remain largely unsettled. This focused conference aims to address some of these issues by examining how gene-culture co-evolutionary theories can explain human emotions – a topic that has been of special importance form more narrow evolutionary approaches, such as evolutionary psychology
Period28 May 2013 → 30 May 2013
Event typeOther
Sponsor
LocationKU Leuven, BelgiumShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational