Charity

Stein, Felix

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“…formulating an ‘overall picture of the natural world that science […] seems to be giving us’ (Godfrey-Smith, 2001 : 284). Important contributions include Kim Sterelny's ( 2012 , 2021 ) work aimed at outlining the natural history of human beings and their hominin ancestors, and work making sense of the striking increase in technological complexity of hominins (Pain & Brown, 2021 ). This marks a promising shift that some have described in terms of movement from a constrained form of behavioural innovation to one that is ‘open-ended’ (Borg et al, 2022 ; Charbonneau, 2015 ), perhaps in a way analogous to the open-ended possibilities afforded by genetic recombination (Charbonneau, 2016 ).…”

Section: Developments In the Philosophy Of Science For Cultural Evolu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural evolution: A review of theoretical challenges

Nichols,

Charbonneau,

Chellappoo

et al. 2024

Evolut. Hum. Sci.

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The rapid growth of cultural evolutionary science, its expansion into numerous fields, its use of diverse methods, and several conceptual problems have outpaced corollary developments in theory and philosophy of science. This has led to concern, exemplified in results from a recent survey conducted with members of the Cultural Evolution Society, that the field lacks ‘knowledge synthesis’, is poorly supported by ‘theory’, has an ambiguous relation to biological evolution, and uses key terms (e.g. ‘culture’, ‘social learning’, ‘cumulative culture’) in ways that hamper operationalization in models, experiments, and field studies. Though numerous review papers in the field represent and categorize its empirical findings, the field's theoretical challenges receive less critical attention even though challenges of a theoretical or conceptual nature underlie most of the problems identified by Cultural Evolution Society members. Guided by the heterogeneous ‘grand challenges’ emergent in this survey, this paper restates those challenges and adopts an organizational style requisite to discussion of them. The paper's goal is to contribute to increasing conceptual clarity and theoretical discernment around the most pressing challenges facing the field of cultural evolutionary science. It will be of most interest to cultural evolutionary scientists, theoreticians, philosophers of science, and interdisciplinary researchers.

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Section: Developments In the Philosophy Of Science For Cultural Evolu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural evolution: A review of theoretical challenges

Nichols,

Charbonneau,

Chellappoo

et al. 2024

Evolut. Hum. Sci.

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Introduction: Charity, Relief and Humanitarianism as a Means of Maintaining Social and Political Stability in the Middle East. A Longue Durée Analysis of Actors, Categories and Practices

2022

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Different forms of charity, relief and humanitarian action can be jointly approached as a means of governance and social regulation. More precisely, in the Middle East the question of stability – social and political – can be considered as a central driver for local and international actors alike. This study adopts a broad historical framework, reaching from antiquity to the present day, with the aim of approaching the subject with an openness conducive to understanding the evolution of the actors, modes of action and representations underlying aid initiatives. The longue durée approach allows to show two main specificities of the modern and contemporary Middle East: firstly, the evolution of aid practices is directly linked to human mobility, since they are connected to religious practices, commerce or violence, which led to the need to take a census, to categorise and sometimes isolate populations in order to govern and control them. Secondly, in the absence of the welfare state as the most important provider of aid, the state has until today in the Middle East much less prominence among the multiplicity of aid providers, such as the family, non-governmental, religious and community organisations.

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Charity

Cited by 2 publications

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Cultural evolution: A review of theoretical challenges

Cultural evolution: A review of theoretical challenges

Introduction: Charity, Relief and Humanitarianism as a Means of Maintaining Social and Political Stability in the Middle East. A Longue Durée Analysis of Actors, Categories and Practices

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