Crowding out Memetic Explanation

Philosophy of Science 87 (5):1160-1171 (2020)
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Memes have been proposed to explain wide swathes of human culture and language use. I argue that what is really doing the explanatory work in many of these cases is a basic mechanism of information...

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Rosa Cao
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