It's Only Human

Armin W. Schulz explores what makes human cognition distinct, suggesting that the evolution of our cognition is built on a feedback loop of innate representations, forms of cultural learning, and technology--which in turn explain our capacity for trade, morality, and human mindreading.

Armin W. Schulz is an interdisciplinary researcher investigating what we can learn from linking evolutionary biology and the cognitive and social sciences. He completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying evolutionary biology along the way. He has been a member of the Philosophy Department at University of Kansas since 2014.

- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Human Cognitive Uniqueness: An Inventory
- Chapter 3: Explaining Distinctively Human Cognition: The Lay of the Land
- Chapter 4: Thinking Tools
- Chapter 5: The Origins of Distinctively Human Mindreading: A Bio-Social-Technological Coevolutionary Account
- Chapter 6: The Making of Morality: The Bio-Social-Technological Evolution of Human Moral Representations
- Chapter 7: Tools of the Trade: The Biocultural-Technological Evolution of the Human Propensity to Trade
- Chapter 8: Artificial Intelligence, Religion, and Patents: Some Applications
- Chapter 9: Conclusion