RE: Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 15:04:52 BST

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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE: Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:04:52 +0100
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    Thanks we know...

    (BTW, nice crack about religion...)

    Vincent

    > ----------
    > From: J. R. Molloy
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 2:41 pm
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science
    >
    > A scholarly book on memetics has recently been published:
    >
    > Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science, edited by Robert
    > Aunger, OUP.
    >
    > Synopsis
    >
    > The publication in 1998 of Susan Blackmore's bestselling "The Meme
    > Machine"
    > reawakened the debate over the highly controverial field of memetics. In
    > recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in "memes". The one
    > thing noticably missing though, has been any kind of proper debate over
    > the
    > validity of a concept regarded by many as scientifically suspect. This
    > work
    > pits leading intellectuals, (both supporters and opponents of meme
    > theory),
    > against each other to battle it out, and state their case. It contains a
    > foreword by Daniel Dennett, and contributions from Dan Sperber, David
    > Hull,
    > Robert Boyd, Susan Blackmore, Henry Plotkin, and others.
    >
    > Amazon US:
    > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192632442/darwinanddarwini/
    > Amazon UK:
    > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192632442/humannaturecom/
    >
    >
    > --J. R.
    >
    > Useless hypotheses:
    > consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
    > analog computing, cultural relativism
    >
    > Everything that can happen has already happened, not just once,
    > but an infinite number of times, and will continue to do so forever.
    > (Everything that can happen = more than anyone can imagine.)
    >
    > http://www.shasta.com/jr
    > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/virtropy
    >
    >
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    > see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
    >

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