A Natural History of Human Thinking [Kindle Edition]
Author: Michael Tomasello - ISBN: B00GG0C9WK - Language: English - Format: PDF, EPUB
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Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that cooperative social interaction is the key to our cognitive uniqueness.
Tomasello maintains that our prehuman ancestors, like today's great apes, were social beings who could solve problems by thinking. But they were almost entirely competitive, aiming only at their individual goals. As ecological changes forced them into more cooperative living arrangements, early humans had to coordinate their actions and communicate their thoughts with collaborative partners. Tomasello's "shared intentionality hypothesis" captures how these more socially complex forms of life led to more conceptually complex forms of thinking. In order to survive, humans had to learn to see the world from multiple social perspectives, to draw socially recursive inferences, and to monitor their own thinking via the normative standards of the group. Even language and culture arose from the preexisting need to work together and coordinate thoughts. A Natural History of Human Thinking is the most detailed scientific analysis to date of the connection between human sociality and cognition.
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- Publisher: Harvard University Press (February 17, 2014)
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Michael Tomasello is a behavioral and evolutionary anthropologist who heads the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. His major contributions deals with the ways in which human thinking goes beyond that of other primates not simply quantitatively (we have bigger brains that can do more computations faster) but especially qualitatively (we can think in ways that are not available at all even to the great apes).
Tomasello derives his conclusions from careful and close study in the laboratory of differences in behavior of adult and child humans on the one hand, and non-human primates, especially the great apes, on the other. He shows that there are three types of human cognition, only one of which, individual rationality (“me-thinking”) is shared with the great apes (and a fortiori with other animal species).
Individual rationality is exemplified by the economist’s utility maximizer. Individual rationality can be purely selfish, in which individuals are sociopaths who care about others only as objects that may help satisfy their personal needs, but can also include elements of empathy in which individuals care about the suffering of others, and also elements of negative hostility in which individuals gain pleasure from hurting and punishing others who have displeased them..
A second kind of human cognition is what Tomasello calls “collective intentionality,” Tomasello writes: “Modern humans became cultural beings…by creating…cultural conventions, norms, and institutions built not on personal but on cultural common ground. They thus became thoroughly group-minded individuals.” (p. 80) This sort of human cognition is extremely well-known, as developed in sociology by Emile Durkheim, George Herbert Mead, Talcott Parsons and many others.
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