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A Two-Step Theory of the Evolution of Human Thinking
- Source :
- Journal of Social Ontology, Vol 2, Iss 1 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- University of Vienna, 2016.
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Abstract
- Social accounts of objective content, like the one advanced by Tomasello (2014), are traditionally challenged by an ‘essential tension’ (Hutto and Satne 2015). The tension is the following: while sociality is deemed to be at the basis of thinking, in order to explain sociality, some form of thinking seems to be necessarily presupposed. In this contribution I analyse Tomasello’s two-step theory of the evolution of human thinking vis-à-vis this challenge. While his theory is in principle suited to address it, I claim that the specifics of the first step and the notion of perspective that infuse it are problematic in this regard. I end by briefly sketching an alternative.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21969663
- Volume :
- 2
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Journal of Social Ontology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.7144ee8e71694075aa5e99af55811a75
- Document Type :
- article