[SydPhil] Resending: HPS Research Seminar on Monday 29/8/2022 Start 5.30pm (Presenter Surname corrected)

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Subject: [SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar on Monday 29/8/2022 Start 5.30pm


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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 29th AUGUST 2022
FROM 5:30PM

Location:
F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
Register to receive Zoom link:
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RONALD PLANER (ANU)
COOPERATIVE BREEDING AND ORIGINS OF SHARED INTENTIONALITY

Abstract: It has seemed to many theorists that our nature as a cooperatively 
breeding species is crucial to understanding how we became human. This article 
examines a particular strand within this thinking, according to which 
cooperative breeding drove the evolution of human skills and motivations for 
sharing intentionality. I focus on a model of the evolution of these skills and 
motivations offered by Tomasello and González-Cabrera (2017) (see also 
Tomasello [2019]). Their model is “composite” in that it also recognizes an 
important role for collaborative foraging in the evolution of shared 
intentionality. I argue that their model faces at least two problems—what I 
call the “reflexive metacognition problem” and the “bonding problem.” These two 
problems (as their names would suggest) concern the cognitive and 
emotional-motivational dimensions of the evolution of shared intentionality, 
respectively. I sketch an alternative model which also posits a dual role for 
collaborative foraging and cooperative breeding. However, there are some 
crucial differences between the two models. In particular, Tomasello and 
González-Cabrera appeal to cooperative breeding to explain the origin of basic 
skills and motivations for sharing intentionality. In contrast, I argue that 
cooperative breeding, at least initially, primarily served to drive down the 
age of development of preexisting skills and motivations for sharing 
intentionality that originally evolved to support collaborative foraging. This 
alternative model avoids the reflexive cognition and bonding problem, and has 
other advantages which I highlight.

Tomasello, M., & Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2017). The role of ontogeny in the 
evolution of human cooperation. Human Nature, 28(3), 274-288.

Tomasello, M. (2019). Becoming human. In Becoming Human. Harvard University 
Press.



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[SydPhil] Agora Speaker Series - Prof Helen Beebee

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The School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong invites you to attend the
Agora Speaker Series
Thursday 1 September, 3.30 to 5.00pm
This is an in-person event at the University of Wollongong - Register 
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Professor Helen Beebee (University of Leeds)

Knowledge and Understanding in Analytic Philosophy
Grant that pervasive and persistent peer disagreement undermines justification. 
If so, then - individually and collectively - we have very little philosophical 
knowledge, and the prospects for any radical turnaround in our epistemic 
fortunes don't look good. And yet we have made a fair bit of progress over the 
last two and a half thousand years. So what might our goal be, if we have 
indeed been making good progress and therefore should not think that our goal 
is knowledge? I claim that it's understanding - but of a radically non-factive 
kind.


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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar on Monday 29/8/2022 Start 5.30pm

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 29th AUGUST 2022
FROM 5:30PM

Location:
F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
Register to receive Zoom link:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpd--spj0oEtLgPKw2z0dPauo4Lp9yfoZz

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RONALD PLANNER
COOPERATIVE BREEDING AND ORIGINS OF SHARED INTENTIONALITY

Abstract: It has seemed to many theorists that our nature as a cooperatively 
breeding species is crucial to understanding how we became human. This article 
examines a particular strand within this thinking, according to which 
cooperative breeding drove the evolution of human skills and motivations for 
sharing intentionality. I focus on a model of the evolution of these skills and 
motivations offered by Tomasello and González-Cabrera (2017) (see also 
Tomasello [2019]). Their model is “composite” in that it also recognizes an 
important role for collaborative foraging in the evolution of shared 
intentionality. I argue that their model faces at least two problems—what I 
call the “reflexive metacognition problem” and the “bonding problem.” These two 
problems (as their names would suggest) concern the cognitive and 
emotional-motivational dimensions of the evolution of shared intentionality, 
respectively. I sketch an alternative model which also posits a dual role for 
collaborative foraging and cooperative breeding. However, there are some 
crucial differences between the two models. In particular, Tomasello and 
González-Cabrera appeal to cooperative breeding to explain the origin of basic 
skills and motivations for sharing intentionality. In contrast, I argue that 
cooperative breeding, at least initially, primarily served to drive down the 
age of development of preexisting skills and motivations for sharing 
intentionality that originally evolved to support collaborative foraging. This 
alternative model avoids the reflexive cognition and bonding problem, and has 
other advantages which I highlight.

Tomasello, M., & Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2017). The role of ontogeny in the 
evolution of human cooperation. Human Nature, 28(3), 274-288.

Tomasello, M. (2019). Becoming human. In Becoming Human. Harvard University 
Press.



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START: 5.30PM
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