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Professor Jonathan Birch (LSE)
Wednesday 03 October 2018, 16:30-17:30
Our Ways: Toolmaking and the Origins of Normative Cognition
- đ¤ Speaker: Professor Jonathan Birch (LSE)
- đ Date & Time: Wednesday 03 October 2018, 16:30 - 17:30
- đ Venue: Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG
Abstract
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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