title: Dan Sperber’s philosophy of culture
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metadata.value: Kedrova, Marina O.
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metadata.value: 2023-10-05T13:54:59Z
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metadata.value: 2023-10-05T13:54:59Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021
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metadata.value: Kedrova M. O. Dan Sperber’s philosophy of culture. Philosophy of the History of Philosophy, 2021, vol. 2, рр. 298–315. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu34.2021.119 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu34.2021.119
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44101
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metadata.value: This article is a general preliminary sketch of the philosophy of culture of the French
  philosopher Dan Sperber (b. 1942). At the center of our analysis is his monograph
  “Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach” (1996). Sperber develops a materialistic
  approach to culture, based on the Darwinian model and on the achievements
  of contemporary cognitive psychology. He argues that cultural epidemiology (epidemiology
  of representations) must study culture. Sperber distinguishes between
  two types of representations: mental and public. These representations form causal
  chains. Sperber’s task is to understand why some representations are stable and widespread,
  unlike others. Sperber distances himself from memetics, emphasizing that in
  the process of cultural translation, representations are constantly changing, and their
  changes occur in the direction of cultural attractiveness. Sperber argues with Jerry
  Fodor about the modularity of consciousness: unlike Fodor, he argues that conceptual
  processes, that is, thinking itself, can also be modular. Sperber expands the sphere
  of rationality, introducing into it the half-understandable, doubtful and mysterious.
  Sperber sets himself the task of combining together a modular view of conceptual
  thinking and a naturalistic (materialistic) view of human culture, which he develops
  under the name “epidemiology of representations”.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The article was prepared with the support of the Interdisciplinary Scientific
  and Educational School of Moscow University “Preservation of the world cultural and
  historical heritage”.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philosophy of the History of Philosophy;Volume 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Dan Sperber
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: philosophy of culture
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: epidemiology of representations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cognitive psychology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cultural dynamics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cultural translation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cultural studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Dan Sperber’s philosophy of culture
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metadata.value: Article
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