S U B S T A N C E 94/95
Vol.30, no.1 & 2, 2001 [Full Text*]
Special Issue: On the Origin of Fictions, Interdisciplinary Perspectives guest edited by H. Porter Abbott
John Tooby & Leda Cosmides on beauty and adapted minds,Steven Mithen the evolution of imagination, Paul Hernadi on literature and evolution, Kay Young & Jeffrey L. Saver on the neurology of narrative, Ellen Dissanayake the aesthetic imagination, Bert O. States on dreams, Patrick Colm Hogan on suffering, N. Katherine Hayles on desiring agency, Gabriele Schwab on endopsychic scripts, Ellen Spolsky on why and how to take the fruit and leave the chaff, H. Porter Abbott on humanists and scientists, Federick Turner on biological and social reductionism, Eleanor Rosch on eastern psychologies, the arts, and self-knowledge.
On the Origin of Fictions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Editor : H. Porter Abbott
Introduction
I. FORMULATIONS
Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Aesthetics, Fiction, and the Arts
John Tooby & Leda Cosmides
The Evolution of Imagination: An Archaeological Perspective
Steven Mithen
Literature and Evolution
Paul Hernadi
II. EXPLORATIONS
The Neurology of Narrative
Kay Young & Jeffrey L. Saver
Becoming Homo Aestheticus: Sources of Aesthetic Imagination in Mother-Infant Interactions
Ellen Dissanayake
Dreams: The Royal Road to Metaphor
Bert O. States
The Epilogue of Suffering: Heroism, Empathy, Ethics
Patrick Colm Hogan
III. RECONSIDERATIONS
Desiring Agency: Limiting Metaphors and Enabling Constraints in Dawkins and Deleuze/Guattari
N. Katherine Hayles
Cultural Texts and Endopsychic Scripts
Gabriele Schwab
Why and How to Take the Fruit and Leave the Chaff
Ellen Spolsky
Dialogue
Spolsky-Tooby & Cosmides
Humanists, Scientists, and the Cultural Surplus
H. Porter Abbott
Transcending Biological and Social Reductionism
Frederick Turner
“If You Depict a Bird, Give it Space to Fly”: Eastern Psychologies, the Arts, and Self-Knowledge
Eleanor Rosch
REVIEWS
Agamben, Giorgio. Potentialities.
Reviewed by Brian Dillon
Hénaff, Marcel. Sade: The Invention of the Libertine Body.
Reviewed by Julie Candler Hayes
Moi, Toril. What is a Woman? And other Essays.
Reviewed by Lynne Huffer
Rosset, François. L’Arbre de Cracovie: Le mythe polonais dans la littérature française.
Reviewed by Thomas McLean
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