On the Distinctively Human
Two Perspectives on the Evolution of Language and Conscious Mind
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975713 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Osmo Kivinen (0000-0002-7630-1294, University of Turku, corresponding author), Tero Piiroinen (0000-0002-6560-5428, University of Turku) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-105 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2011.00479.x |
| OpenAlex | W1780791412 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 42 |
In this paper, two alternative naturalistic standpoints on the relations between language, human consciousness and social life are contrasted. The first, dubbed “intrinsic naturalism,” is advocated among others by the realist philosopher John Searle; it starts with intrinsic intentionality and consciousness emerging from the brain, explains language as an outgrowth of consciousness and ends with institutional reality being created by language‐use. That standpoint leans on what may be described as the standard interpretation of Darwinian evolution. The other type of naturalism, in contrast, making use of the concept of evolutionary niches, suggests that the search for the explanatory mechanisms of language and consciousness should begin with the human community (of social action), because that is the cultural niche for everything distinctively human to evolve, including language and human consciousness
Action (physics · Cognitive science · Consciousness · Darwinism · Epistemology · Intentionality · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Naturalism · Niche construction · Social consciousness · Sociology · Child and Animal Learning Development · Ecology · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Language and cultural evolution · Philosophy · Psychology
Pragmatist Methodological Relationalism in Sociological Understanding of Evolving Human Culture
Human Transaction Mechanisms in Evolutionary Niches—a Methodological Relationalist Standpoint
A Road Map for Applying Relational Sociology
A meaning holistic (dis)solution of subject–object dualism – its implications for the human sciences
Epoch‐Making Changes in the Cultural Evolution of Communication
A M ead‐ C homsky Comparison Reveals a Set of Key Questions on the Nature of Language and Mind
The evolution of Homo Discens
The descent of man
Making the Social World
Supersizing the Mind
Niche Construction
On Nature and Language
Human niche construction in interdisciplinary focus
The Faculty of Language
Minds
From hominins to humans
Language, embodiment, and the cognitive niche
How culture shaped the human genome
Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation
Non-Representational Theory
Consciousness and Language
Coevolution
Adapting Minds
Neurosociology
Discourse and Mind
Toward Pragmatist Methodological Relationalism
Responses to Critics of The Construction of Social Reality
Reflections on the “Darwin‐Descartes” Problem
Sociologizing metaphysics and mind
The Relevance of Ontological Commitments in Social Sciences
The Rediscovery of the Mind
The social construction of mind
Expression and Meaning
Intentionality
Mind, Self, and Society
Speech Acts
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |