Unit 5: Symbol and Language

Fresh from the oven! A bit larger than expected, here you have the complementary -even though absolutely necessary- materials regarding our fifth unit. Now you can proceed, dear pupils, to read, download, copy, study them or whatever you want (within certain limits).

UNIT 5


[This is the right link for the Exercise 11 on page 6: http://www.sltinfo.com/key-properties-of-language/ ]

Genes, memes and temes. The fascinating world of memetic.

Even coined by Richard Dawkins in his The Selfish Gene, back in 1976, the term meme (and its derivative memetic, among others), has been broadly spread by the British psychologist Susan Blackmore, especially in her book The Meme Machine (1999).

Memetic offers a new approach to the nature-nurture debate, which has been one of the main subjects in our Unit 4.

It is absolutely worth seeing this short lecture, given by Blackmore in California in 2008:

Other interesting sources could be the following:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un3ObVrDNxM
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEIE3iifg1A
• http://www.desdeelexilio.com/2009/02/04/maquinas-de-memes-entrevista-a-susan-blackmore/

Nietzsche y Ortega

Aquí encontraréis, estimados compañeros de esfuerzos, materiales complementarios de gran utilidad para la preparación de los exámenes de la III evaluación de Historia de la Filosofía.

MATERIALES.