Dear All, A reminder that the third of our Nature and Culture seminars will take place tomorrow (Tue 12th May) from 1pm to 2.30pm in Seminar Room 1 of the HPS Department. Fiona Jordan (Bristol) will speak on "The Bounded Diversity of Human Kinship: Unpacking Processes of Cultural Evolution".
Abstract: How do societies differ in who they class as family? Why do some societies allow cousins to marry, while others class cousins as akin to siblings? Why do some societies expect newlyweds to live with the groom's family, but others with the bride's? How do these norms change through time—and why do humans have such variable norms about family and kinship? In this talk I will introduce a new 5-year project, VARIKIN, in which I hope to answer some of these questions using a novel theoretical framework adapted from Tinbergen's ‘four questions’ about evolution. The project aims to understand kinship diversity across cultures from developmental, adaptive, cognitive, and interactional perspectives. All welcome, Best wishes, Tim -- Tim Lewens University of Cambridge Professor of Philosophy of Science, Department of History and Philosophy of Science Deputy Director, Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities Principal Investigator, 'A Science of Human Nature?' http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk http://www.humannature.hps.cam.ac.uk New Books: _The Biological Foundations of Bioethics_ (OUP, January 2015) http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198712657.do# _Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges_ (OUP, August 2015) http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199674183.do _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
