reckless intuitions of an epistemic hygienist (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gustavolacerda) wrote,@ 2005-05-27 17:06:00 |
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Doug Candland, mental fossils, R Hanson on "The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought"
Doug Candland, one of the most interesting people I met at Bucknell, now has a website. He is the one who introduced me to the concept of meme.
He has finally finished the first draft of his new book Psychology of Mental Fossils: Toward an Archeo-psychology
It deals with the question:
Why do some ideas com up time and time again in human cultures? e.g. spiritual healing, phrenology?
This reminds me of Robin Hanson's review of Pascal Boyer's "Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought"
I might call such a topic "the anatomy of human quirkiness".
