Scott Atron
Cognitive anthropologist who studies folk biological classification and the cognitive foundations of natural history, describing innate modules and how science diverges from common-sense thinking.
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Jan 19, 2019 • 0sec
Modes of Thought Part Four
Ian Hacking, philosopher of science known for work on statistics and normality, and Scott Atran, cognitive anthropologist studying folk taxonomy, discuss how human minds form innate taxonomies and how scientific classification diverges from common sense. They explore the feedback between social labels and behavior, the rise of statistical normality, and how classifications reshape identities and reasoning.
