Joseph, Vukov and Charles, Lassiter (2018) How to Power Encultured Minds. [Preprint]

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Abstract

Cultural psychologists often describe the relationship between mind and culture as ‘dynamic.’ In light of this, we provide two desiderata that a theory about encultured minds ought to meet: the theory ought to reflect how cultural psychologists describe their own findings and it ought to be thoroughly naturalistic. We show that a realist theory of causal powers — which holds that powers are causally-efficacious and empirically-discoverable — fits the bill. After an introduction to the major concepts in cultural psychology and describing causal power realism, we use a case study — the effects of pathogen prevalence on culture and cognition — to show the explanatory capacities of the powers framework

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Joseph, Vukov Charles, Lassiter
Keywords:	mental powers, cultural psychology, encultured cognition
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Anthropology Specific Sciences > Psychology Specific Sciences > Sociology
Depositing User:	Dr. Charles Lassiter
Date Deposited:	02 Aug 2018 17:18
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2018 17:18
Item ID:	14913
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Anthropology Specific Sciences > Psychology Specific Sciences > Sociology
Date:	18 July 2018
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14913

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