This is an interesting discussion.
In the section below, I think the definition differentiating "culture"
and "culture" vs "cumulative cultural evoluton" is problematic, as the
longstanding ethnological definition of "culture" makes "accumulation"
a necessary part of the definition. In other words
http://confs.infres.enst.fr//evolang/actes/_actes82.html
Culture vs. propositional thought as 'missing link'
in the evolution of language
Tadeusz Wieslaw Zawidzki
Overview
This paper examines the relative merits of two competing paradigms for
explaining the evolution of natural language. Accordi
Paul Cockshott's review of my book "The Adam Smith Problem: Reconciling Human
Nature and Society in The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Welth of Nations" in
the *Journal of Critical Realism* can be viewed at
http://www.equinoxjournals.com/JCR/article/view/6451/6012.
D.Göçmen
http://dogangoc
If Corballis had known a bit more about articulatory phonology and
mirror neurons at the time he produced this, this would have been
quite brilliant. It's still very good though. He based an entire book
on the argument. With more revelations from articulatory phonology
(mostly at Haskins Laboratory
Merleau Ponty would have loved this, I think.
CJ
http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/~hoole/kurse/hs_evolution/studdertkennedygoldstein_launchingLanguage_2003.pdf
introductory excerpt:
0.1 Introduction
‘Discrete infinity’ refers to the property by which language
constructs from a few
dozen disc
