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If Skill is Normative, Then Norms are Everywhere
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Evan Westra
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Kristin Andrews
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June 17, 2021
Abstract
Birch sketches out an ingenious account of how the psychology of social norms emerged from individual-level norms of skill. We suggest that these individual-level norms of skill are likely to be much more widespread than Birch suggests, extending deeper into the hominid lineage, across modern great ape species, all the way to distantly related creatures like honeybees. This suggests that there would have been multiple opportunities for social norms to emerge from skill norms in human prehistory.
Keywords: norms; social norms; skill; tool-making; cognition; navigation; animal normativity; chimpanzees; gorillas; honeybees
Published Online: 2021-06-17
Published in Print: 2021-06-01
© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
norms;
social norms;
skill;
tool-making;
cognition;
navigation;
animal normativity;
chimpanzees;
gorillas;
honeybees
Articles in the same Issue
- Title
- Contents
- Editorial
- Symposium on Capital and Ideology
- Accumulating Capital: Capital and Ideology after Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Ideology and Institutions in the Evolution of Capital
- Is More Mittelstand the Answer? Firm Size and the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
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- More Lessons to Learn: Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology and Alternative Archives of Social Experience
- About Capital, Socialism and Ideology
- General Part
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- Discussion: Jonathan Birch, Toolmaking and the Origin of Normative Cognition
- The Skilful Origins of Human Normative Cognition
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- Norms Require Not Just Technical Skill and Social Learning, but Real Cooperation
- The Skill Hypothesis: A Variant
- Normative Guidance, Evaluative Guidance, and Skill
- Refining the Skill Hypothesis: Replies to Andrews/Westra, Tomasello, Sterelny, and Railton
