A Natural History Of Human Thinking by Michael Tomasello
Argues that human thinking evolved from uniquely cooperative social interactions, in which early humans developed shared intentionality to coordinate in collaborative tasks, leading to joint goals, communication, and reason-giving. Drawing on comparisons with great apes and developmental evidence, it outlines a two-step shift from dyadic joint intentionality to broader collective intentionality, enabling norms, symbols, institutions, and cumulative culture. This social-cognitive evolution made human cognition fundamentally collaborative, reflective, and normative.
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- Published
- 2014
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 170-200
- Original Language
- English
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