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  • Members: 70
  • Category: Humanities
  • Founded: Aug 12, 2005
  • Language: English
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Forum for the discussion of Darwinian and cognitive approaches to culture.

All with an interest in the interplay between science and literature, music, the arts and popular culture are welcome. The list includes people with many different backgrounds including anthropology, psychology, political science, the various national and comparative literatures, biology and those who simply have an interest in biopoetics.

Questions may be addressed to biopoet-owner@yahoogroups.com

Read the recent NY Times article on the Literary Darwinists (also available under "files"):
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/magazine/06darwin.html

Be sure to check out the biopoetics bibliography (compiled by Joseph Carroll) at http://babel.uoregon.edu/cogsci/biopoetbib.htm

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The Neural Imagination: Aesthetic and Neuroscientific Approaches to
Irving Massey has just published a book that looks most interesting. You can find the TOC, preface, and first chapter here:
Posted - Thu Nov 5, 2009 8:22 pm
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CFP: special journal issue on evolutionary cultural studies
Hi Everybody, Michael Ryan and Amitava Kumar co-edit an online journal, Politics and Culture: http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/index2.cfm. They
Posted - Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:09 pm
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Mind - How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect - NYTimes.com
Keith -- FYI -- BB http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/06mind.html?hpw
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Re: Norman N. Holland, Literature and the Brain
Thanks, Maya. Yes, I mean "regulate" in just the way you do: "mitigate, stimulate, control, augment and synthesize the body's more immediate thoughts and
Posted - Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:51 pm
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Re: Norman N. Holland, Literature and the Brain
Joe, I really like the first two paragraphs below. The first two long paragraphs. I didn't quite think of the imaginative functions as there to regulate
Posted - Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:07 pm
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