عنوان

Cognitive foundations of natural history :

(Number (ISBN

0521372933

(Number (ISBN

2735102963 (France)

(Number (ISBN

9780521372930

(Number (ISBN

9782735102969 (France)

Number

b528285

Title Proper

Cognitive foundations of natural history :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

towards an anthropology of science /

First Statement of Responsibility

Scott Atran.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Paris :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'homme,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1990.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 360 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-339) and index.

Text of Note

Common Sense: Its Scope and Limits -- Folkbiology -- Folktaxonomy -- In the beginning ... -- A basic level -- Life-forms -- Exceptions that prove the rule -- Family fragments -- The Semantics of Living Kinds -- Domain specificity -- Meaning as a motley -- Nature and necessity -- Phenomenal reality and nomic theory -- Kinds of natural kinds -- Aristotelian Essentials -- Essence and Environment -- Essentialism reconsidered -- "Induction" -- Form and matter -- Materials of Logical Division -- Genos and Eidos -- Division and assembly -- Analogy -- Failure's triumph -- From Herbals to Systems -- Origins of the Species Concept -- Back to nature -- Charting new territory -- Species forever -- Omnia ex ovo -- The Nature of the Genus -- Fruits of reason -- Trial and error -- Art and intuition -- Paradise regained -- The Scientific Breakaway -- The Method of Families and Classes -- Stress and strain -- And the walls came tumbling down -- Piecing together the fragments -- Organization -- End of series -- Science, Symbolism and Common Sense -- Savage savvy -- Cognitive "pathogenesis" -- Speculating -- Plants as animals -- The analogy of nature -- Man dethroned -- Dispositions to susceptibilities -- Rudiments of the Linnaean Hierarchy: Towards an Anthropology of Science -- Milestones of Natural History.

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Cognition and culture.

Folk classification.

Natural history-- Classification.

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Book number

Atran, Scott,1952-

Date of Transaction

20140212095914.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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