Research Catalog

Title

Evolution and learning : the Baldwin effect reconsidered / edited by Bruce H. Weber and David J. Depew.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Weber, Bruce H.
• Depew, David J., 1942-

Description

x, 341 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Life and mind

Uniform Title

Life and mind.

Subject

• Baldwin, James Mark, 1861-1934
• Evolutionary psychology
• Learning, Psychology of

Note

• Based on a conference held in Nov. 1999 at Bennington College.
• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Baldwin Boosters, Baldwin Skeptics -- 1. Baldwin and His Many Effects / David J. Depew -- 2. Baldwin Effects and the Expansion of the Explanatory Repertoire in Evolutionary Biology / Stephen M. Downes -- 3. Between Baldwin Skepticism and Baldwin Boosterism / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- 4. The Baldwin Effect: A Crane, Not a Skyhook / Daniel Dennett -- 5. Multilevel Selection in a Complex Adaptive System: The Problem of Language Origins / Terrence W. Deacon -- 6. Postscript on the Baldwin Effect and Niche Construction / Peter Godfrey-Smith, Daniel Dennett and Terrence W. Deacon -- II. Baldwinism and Development -- 7. Evolution, Development, and the Individual Acquisition of Traits: What We've Learned since Baldwin / Celia L. Moore -- 8. Baldwin and Beyond: Organic Selection and Genetic Assimilation / Brian K. Hall -- 9. On Having a Hammer / Susan Oyama -- 10. Beyond the Baldwin Effect: James Mark Baldwin's "Social Heredity," Epigenetic Inheritance, and Niche Construction / Paul E. Griffiths -- III. Beyond Baldwinism -- 11. The Baldwin Effect in the Age of Computation / Ruben R. Puentedura -- 12. The Role of Predator-Induced Polyphenism in the Evolution of Cognition: A Baldwinian Speculation -- 13. Baldwin and Biosemiotics: What Intelligence Is For / Jesper Hoffmeyer and Kalevi Kull -- 14. The Hierarchic Logic of Emergence: Untangling the Interdependence of Evolution and Self-Organization / Terrence W. Deacon -- 15. Emergence of Mind and the Baldwin Effect / Bruce H. Weber.

ISBN

0262232294 (hc. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002031992

OCLC

• ocm50440849
• SCSB-4811858

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries