Hi all! A quick reminder that Professor Jonathan Birch will speak about "Our Ways: Toolmaking and the Origins of Normative Cognition" today. We'll begin at 4.30 in the LCHES seminar room, and head to the Bathhouse afterwards.
Here is the abstract again: ----------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------- Hope to see many of you there, Jaap and Laura -- Laura van Holstein PhD Candidate in Biological Anthropology Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies _____________________________________________________ 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.
