Folk biology and the anthropology of science: Cognitive universals and cultural particulars

S Atran - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1998 - cambridge.org
This essay in the “anthropology of science” is about how cognition constrains culture in
producing science. The example is folk biology, whose cultural recurrence issues from the …

Which way to the dawn of speech?: Reanalyzing half a century of debates and data in light of speech science

LJ Boë, TR Sawallis, J Fagot, P Badin, G Barbier… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Recent articles on primate articulatory abilities are revolutionary regarding speech
emergence, a crucial aspect of language evolution, by revealing a human-like system of …

[BOK][B] The Black Swan:: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section:" On Robustness and Fragility"

NN Taleb - 2010 - books.google.com
The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of
everything we know about what we don't know, now with a new section called “On …

'The whole is always smaller than its parts'–a digital test of G abriel T ardes' monads

B Latour, P Jensen, T Venturini… - The British journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we argue that the new availability of digital data sets allows one to revisit G
abriel T arde's (1843–1904) social theory that entirely dispensed with using notions such as …

National thought in Europe: A cultural history

J Leerssen - 2018 - torrossa.com
This book is the revised and expanded English version of the Dutch-language Nationaal
denken in Europa: een cultuurhistorischeschets (Amsterdam University Press, 1999). When …

[PDF][PDF] Czarny łabędź

NN Taleb - Jak nieprzewidywalne zdarzenia rządzą naszym …, 2020 - prawo.uni.wroc.pl
Od Yogiego Berry do Henriego Poincarégo Rozdział 10: SKANDAL PROGNOZOWANIA O
niesprecyzowanej liczbie kochanków carycy Katarzyny Powrót ślepoty na Czarne Łabędzie …

Tarde's idea of quantification1

B Latour - The Social after Gabriel Tarde, 2015 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Tarde was the senior figure in the encounter with Durkheim evoked in Chapter 3. It is easy
enough to construe their meeting in terms of a conflict, with either the younger man gaining …

[BOK][B] The Origin of Values: Reprint Edition: Sociology and Philosophy of Beliefs

R Boudon - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Values have always been a central topic in both philosophy and the social sciences.
Statements about what is good or bad, fair or unfair, legitimate or illegitimate, express clear …

What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research

K Nera, C Schöpfer - Theory & Psychology, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In psychological research, conspiracy theories are often defined as explanations of events
involving the hidden action of a malevolent group. Such a definition raises a false negative …

La rigueur du qualitatif: les contraintes empiriques de l'interprétation socio-anthropologique

JP Olivier de Sardan - 2008 - torrossa.com
Nous disions dans l'introduction que sociologie, anthropologie et histoire, bien que
partageant une seule et même épistémologie, se distinguent «malgré tout» …