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Normativity, social change, and the epistemological framing of culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2020

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Andrew Buskell*
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Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, CambridgeCB2 3RH, UK. ab2086@cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

The authors deploy an epistemic framework to represent culture and model the acquisition of cultural behavior. Yet, the framing inherits familiar problems with explaining the acquisition of norms. Such problems are conspicuous with regard to human societies where norms are ubiquitous. This creates a new difficulty for the authors in explaining change to mutually exclusive organizational structures of human life.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e96
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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