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  • Cognitive Science
  • Evolutionary Psychology
  • Philosophy of Mind

Background:

  • Osiurak and Reynaud propose that cumulative technological culture arises from non-social cognitive structures.
  • Their theory seeks to explain human cognition by minimizing the role of social interaction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To challenge the notion of a non-social cognitive structure underlying human technical rationality.
  • To argue that sociality, specifically shared intentionality, is essential for understanding human technical rationality and cumulative culture.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical argumentation and conceptual analysis.
  • Critique of existing theories on cognition and culture.
  • Integration of findings from developmental psychology and primatology on social cognition.

Main Results:

  • Human technical rationality cannot be explained without reference to our species' unique social form of life.
  • Shared intentionality is a foundational element for the development and transmission of technical knowledge.
  • The proposed "non-social cognitive structure" is insufficient to account for cumulative technological culture.

Conclusions:

  • Cumulative technological culture and human technical rationality are fundamentally social phenomena.
  • Shared intentionality provides the necessary framework for understanding the evolution of human cognition and culture.
  • The social dimension of cognition is indispensable for explaining uniquely human capacities.