caa a22 4500 467901775 CHVBK 20180406152820.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10699-004-5916-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10699-004-5916-z De Cruz Helen Centrum voor Logica en Wetenschapsfilosofie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium aut Towards a Darwinian Approach to Mathematics [Elektronische Daten] [Helen De Cruz] In the past decades, recent paradigm shifts in ethology, psychology, and the social sciences have given rise to various new disciplines like cognitive ethology and evolutionary psychology. These disciplines use concepts and theories of evolutionary biology to understand and explain the design, function and origin of the brain. I shall argue that there are several good reasons why this approach could also apply to human mathematical abilities. I will review evidence from various disciplines (cognitive ethology, cognitive psychology, cognitive archaeology and neuropsychology) that suggests that the human capacity for mathematics is a category-specific domain of knowledge, hard-wired in the brain, which can be explained as the result of natural selection. Springer, 2006 philosophy of mathematics nationallicence cognitive science nationallicence animal cognition nationallicence cognitive archaeology nationallicence evolution nationallicence Foundations of Science Kluwer Academic Publishers 11/1-2(2006-03-01), 157-196 1233-1821 11:1-2<157 2006 11 10699 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-004-5916-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-004-5916-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- De Cruz Helen Centrum voor Logica en Wetenschapsfilosofie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Foundations of Science Kluwer Academic Publishers 11/1-2(2006-03-01), 157-196 1233-1821 11:1-2<157 2006 11 10699 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer