Thought in a Hostile World Climbing & mountaineering managing a small team

managing a small team

author of Young Hag

awkward germachemical scholar

topical study

Kitty Cox is adjusting to a new life alone

Thought in a Hostile World Climbing & mountaineering managing a small teamThought in a Hostile World is an exploration of the evolution of cognition, especially human cognition, by one of today's foremost philosophers of biology and of mind. The central idea of the book is that thought is a response to threat. Competitors and enemies make life hard by their direct physical effects. But they also make life hard by eroding epistemic conditions. They lie. They hide themselves. They seem other than what they are. Sterelny uses