Hi all!
Professor Jonathan Birch is our first guest this Wednesday (3 October),
and he will treat us to a discussion on "Our Ways: Toolmaking and the
Origins of Normative Cognition" (abstract below). As always, this will
be held from 4.30-5.30PM in the LCHES seminar room. Everyone is welcome!
Attached is also the finalised termcard.
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I argue that the guidance of action by norms is a central part of the
cognitive architecture underlying skilled action in humans, including
individual motor skill. From this starting point, I explore the
connections between the evolution of normative guidance and the
evolution of skill. I propose that the evolution of norm-guided skill
was an important watershed in human evolution, and that the first
norm-guided skills may have been standardized toolmaking techniques. The
expansion of the normative domain beyond technique to encompass norms of
reciprocity, ritual, kinship and fairness involved the elaboration of a
basic platform for the guidance of skilled action by technical norms.
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See you on Wednesday,
Jaap and Laura
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Laura van Holstein
PhD Candidate in Biological Anthropology
Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies
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