Thought in a hostile world: the evolution of human cognition

Preface.Part I: Assembling Intentionality:1. Evolutionary Naturalism:Two Projects Of Evolutionary NaturalismThe Simple Co-Ordination Thesis2. Detection Systems:The Environmental Complexity HypothesisDetection SystemsThe Power Of Detection Systems Transparent And Translucent WorldsRobust Tracking Systems3. Fuels For Success:Decoupled RepresentationResponse BreadthFuels For Success: SpaceFuels For Success: Intervention In The Material WorldReprise4. Fuels For Success: The Social Intelligence Hypothesis:The Cognitive Demands Of Social LifeThe Social Intelligence HypothesisThe Cognitive World Of The Great Apes: ImitationThe Cognitive World Of Great Apes: Tracking Other Minds5. The Descent Of Preference:Internal EnvironmentsThe Forager's DilemmaPreference Eliminativism?Preference-Like StatesPart II: Not Just Another Species Of Large Mammal:6. Reconstructing Hominid Evolution:Testing Theories Of Human EvolutionFrom Cognitive Device To Evolutionary HistoryMaking ProgressAn Example: Tomasello's ConjectureConclusions7. The Co-Operation Explosion:The Co-Operative PrimateGroup Selection And Human Co-OperationThe Ecological Trigger Of Hominid Co-OperationCoalition And EnforcementCommitment To Enforcement.Upshot8. The Self-Made Species:Ecological EngineersCumulative Niche Construction: The Cognitive ConditionCumulative Niche Construction: The Social ConditionHominid Epistemic EngineeringDownstream Epistemic Engineering9. Heterogeneous Environments And Variable Response:Phenotypic PlasticityIs Plasticity An Adaptation?ReprisePart III: The Fate Of The Folk:10. The Massive Modularity Hypothesis:Massive ModularityLanguage: Paradigm Or Outlier?Communicative IntentionsFodor's Modules And Their LimitsInward BoundEvolution And EncapsulationThe Poverty Of The StimulusThe Case Of Folk BiologyModularity And The Frame Problem11. Interpreting Other Agents:A Theory Of Mind Module? Deconstructing The Folk Psychology ModuleInterpretation, Perception And Scaffolded LearningTruth, Evidence And SuccessCo-Ordination And MeaningSomething New Under The Sun?References Index