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Title: Richard Menary
Pre-talk at 2PM in the Philosophy Common Room. All honours and graduate
students are expected to attend the pre-talk; all others are welcome.
What Can Cognitive Niche Construction Tell us About Cognition?
The idea that organisms often create and maintain complex environmental
niches is familiar in biology from the work of Odling-Smee, Laland and
Feldman (2003). Sterelny (2003) has applied the framework to the greatest
niche constructor of them all – humans – and has produced an intriguing
analysis of how humans have constructed uniquely cognitive (epistemic)
niches. The cognitive niche construction idea has also been taken up by the
likes of Clark and Wheeler (2008) and Stotz (2010) but their versions
differ in important ways from Sterelny's. In this paper I want to explore
what we might learn about human cognitive abilities after we apply the
cognitive niche construction framework to them. I also provide an analysis
of the different conceptions of cognition which are taking shape in the
literature.
When: Wed Sep 29 3:30pm – 5:30pm Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney
Where: The Refectory
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