[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar on Monday 29/8/2022 Start 5.30pm

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 29th AUGUST 2022
FROM 5:30PM

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RONALD PLANNER
COOPERATIVE BREEDING AND ORIGINS OF SHARED INTENTIONALITY

Abstract: It has seemed to many theorists that our nature as a cooperatively breeding species is crucial to understanding how we became human. This article examines a particular strand within this thinking, according to which cooperative breeding drove the evolution of human skills and motivations for sharing intentionality. I focus on a model of the evolution of these skills and motivations offered by Tomasello and González-Cabrera (2017) (see also Tomasello [2019]). Their model is “composite” in that it also recognizes an important role for collaborative foraging in the evolution of shared intentionality. I argue that their model faces at least two problems—what I call the “reflexive metacognition problem” and the “bonding problem.” These two problems (as their names would suggest) concern the cognitive and emotional-motivational dimensions of the evolution of shared intentionality, respectively. I sketch an alternative model which also posits a dual role for collaborative foraging and cooperative breeding. However, there are some crucial differences between the two models. In particular, Tomasello and González-Cabrera appeal to cooperative breeding to explain the origin of basic skills and motivations for sharing intentionality. In contrast, I argue that cooperative breeding, at least initially, primarily served to drive down the age of development of preexisting skills and motivations for sharing intentionality that originally evolved to support collaborative foraging. This alternative model avoids the reflexive cognition and bonding problem, and has other advantages which I highlight.

Tomasello, M., & Gonzalez-Cabrera, I. (2017). The role of ontogeny in the evolution of human cooperation. Human Nature, 28(3), 274-288.

Tomasello, M. (2019). Becoming human. In Becoming Human. Harvard University Press.



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