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TIM LEWENS cultural evolution

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One of the centrepieces of the Royal Society’s celebration of its 350th anniversary in 2010 was a conference entitled ‘Culture Evolves’ (Whiten et al. [2011]). This proclamation is true, to the point of being a truism, if one takes evolution to mean no more than change over time. Is there another sense of ‘culture evolves’ that is not only more substantial, but plausible enough to be worthy of serious scientific and philosophical interest? Tim Lewens believes ...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Experimental Psychology
Oxford college:
University College
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Oxford University Press Publisher's website
Journal:
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Journal website
Volume:
67
Issue:
4
Pages:
1189-1193
Publication date:
2015-12-31
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1464-3537
ISSN:
0007-0882
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904126
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2018-10-14

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