Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Department of Philosophy of Art, Faculty of Law, Theology and Politicl Science, Scienc and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, tehran, Iran
2 Department of philosophy, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
In recent decades, the life sciences have come into the world of narratives and literature with two approaches: the evolutionary and the cognitive ones. The present article, with some references to the second approach, is mainly concerned with the first one. Theories developed in evolutionary paradigm mainly consider human tendency to literature as an adaptation in the process of human evolution at different individual, group, and cultural levels. These theories are criticized in the present article. Theory of extended mind holds the relationship between mind, body and the world around us very intense. Another claim is that extended mind theory has a particular capacity for explaining literature. As a final claim, the paper deals with Evo-Devo biology and uses its explanatory abilities to explain the role of literature in human life and evolution.
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