Suchergebnisse

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Philosophical Primer -- 3 Separate Neoclassical Microeconomics -- 4 Philosophical Issues in Revealed Preference and Utility Analysis -- 5 Experimental Economics, Evolutionary Game Theory, and the Eliminativist Option -- 6 Individualism, Consciousness, and Agency -- 7 Selves and Their Games -- 8 Rational Agency and Rational Selfhood -- 9 The Robbins-Samuelson Argument Pattern and Its Foils -- Notes -- References -- Index

Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning. Bradd Shore. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 428 pp.

Abstract
A mythopoetic paradigm or perspective sees the world primarily as a dramatic story of competing personal intentions, rather than a system of objective impersonal laws. Asma (2017) argued that our contemporary imaginative cognition is evolutionarily conserved-it has structural and functional similarities to premodern Homo sapiens's cognition. This article will (i) outline the essential features of mythopoetic cognition or adaptive imagination, (ii) delineate the adaptive sociocultural advantages of mythopoetic cognition, (iii) explain the phylogenetic and ontogenetic mechanisms that give rise to human mythopoetic mind (i.e., genetically endowed simulation and associational systems that underwrite diverse symbolic systems), (iv) show how mythopoetic cognition challeng­es contemporary trends in cognitive science and philosophy, and (v) recognize and outline empirical approaches for a new cognitive science of the imagination.

In the article social and economic institutions are considered from the point of view of the cognitive science as systems which produce, process and store information. Economic activities can thus be viewed upon as progress of ideas which have been turned into a "reality" of some kind. Such an approach leads to some conclusions about the fundamentals of "the Western" and present Russian social orders. The article also discusses further development of a toolkit for cognitive analysis of institutions.

Examines psychological investigations of cognitive processes; sensations, perception, representations, memory, imagination and thinking; their determinants and their basic underlying mechanisms. Concentrates primarily on the approach adopted in Soviet psychology. (SJO)