Darwinizing culture : the status of memetics as a science / edited by Robert Aunger ; with a forewor...
Darwinizing culture : the status of memetics as a science / edited by Robert Aunger ; with a forewor...
Darwinizing culture : the status of memetics as a science / edited by Robert Aunger ; with a foreword by Daniel Dennett.
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Date
2000.
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N306/ 211
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English
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Physical content
xii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Daniel Dennett -- 1. Introduction / Robert Aunger -- 2. The memes' eye view / Susan Blackmore -- 3. Taking memetics seriously: Memetics will be what we make it / David Hull -- 4. Culture and psychological mechanisms / Henry Plotkin -- 5. Memes through (social) minds / Rosaria Conte -- 6....
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2000.
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Summary
"The publication in 1998 of Susan Blackmore's bestselling The meme machine re-awakened the debate over the highly controversial field of memetics and, in the past couple of years there has been an explosion of interest in 'memes'. However, the one thing noticeably missing has been any kind of proper debate over the validity of a concept regarded by...
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Darwinizing culture : the status of memetics as a science / edited by Robert Aunger ; with a foreword by Daniel Dennett.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N306/ 211
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74VvkrkNRA8Z
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ISBN
0192632442
9780192632449
DDC
306
302.12
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991013908919702626
