Title: Human intentionality and design in cultural evolution
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look at the relation between human intentionality and design on the one side and the blind forces of evolution on the other. Specifically, I discuss two issues that Ulrich Witt has raised in recent publications, namely, first, the issue of whether the role that human intelligence and intentionality play in man-made or cultural evolution requires us to adopt a non-Darwinian concept of evolution, and, second, the issue of what the fact that cultural evolution is man-made implies for our capacity to control the evolutionary process and for our responsibility with regard to its overall outcomes.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-09-27
Language: en
Type: preprint
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