The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism and evolutionary aesthetics Joseph Carroll.

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The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism and evolutionary aesthetics Joseph Carroll

The physical sciences, the life sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities Are moving toward integration.

2010

1998

Physics, astronomy Molecular biology, genetics Evolutionary biology Humanities Causal Constraint Evolutionary social sciences Chemistry

Humanities Evolutionary Biology Molecular biology Physics Organizational Complexity Chemistry Evolutionary Social Sciences

Evolutionary Biology Physics Chemistry Molecular biology Evolutionary social sciences Humanities Evolutionary biology is the Pivotal discipline Linking the physical sciences with the human sciences, & the humanities

Four Paradigm Formations, Each nested in the other: 1.Geology ( ) 2.Evolutionary biology (1859) 3.Evolutionary social science (1975) 4.Evolutionary humanities (1992)

Time Line

Geology 1859 Biology 1910 {SSSM} 1975 Evolutionary social science Evolutionary humanities Time Line

Four Paradigm Formations, Each nested in the other: 1.Geology ( )

Four Paradigm Formations, Each nested in the other: 2. Evolutionary biology (1859)

Descent with Modification was accepted almost immediately. Natural Selection was not fully accepted until the 1930s.

The SSSM Interregnum:

Four Paradigm Formations, Each nested in the other: 3. Evolutionary social science (1975)

Four Paradigm Formations, Each nested in the other: 4. Evolutionary humanities (1992)

A Consilient Program:

Evolutionary Ideas

A Consilient Program: Evolutionary Ideas

A Consilient Program: Empirical Methods Evolutionary Ideas and

Website questionnaire on 2,000 characters from 202 British novels of the longer 19 th century 1,494 protocols completed Separate website for Thomas Hardys The Mayor of Casterbridge (124 protocols completed) 441 individual characters profiled and graphed

Conclusion from Graphing Jane Austen: moral disposition counts overwhelmingly more than the sex of characters.

Agonistic structure mirrors the basic political dynamic in egalitarian hunter-gatherer cultures.

Antagonists seek dominance.

Antagonists seek dominance. Protagonists are prosocial.

To recapitulate

Four Paradigm Formations, Each nested in the other: 1.Geology ( ) 2.Evolutionary biology (1859) 3.Evolutionary social science (1975) 4.Evolutionary humanities (1992)

Evolutionary Psychology is a paradigm still in process of formation.

Flexible general intelligence has now been added in

Cooperative Group Living is still being added in.

And we are still struggling to add in culture and the imagination.

Gene-Culture Co-Evolution

Imaginative Culture

Three main versions of the adapted mind

The Adapted Human Mind

Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = The Adapted Human Mind

Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = The Adapted Human Mind

Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = The Adapted Human Mind

Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = General Intelligence: Technology Logistics Social Organization Trade Theology Philosophy History Aesthetics Science Broad-School EP = Narrow-School EP Plus The Adapted Human Mind

Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = General Intelligence: Technology Logistics Social Organization Trade Theology Philosophy History Aesthetics Science Broad-School EP = Narrow-School EP Plus The Adapted Human Mind 2005

Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = General Intelligence: Technology Logistics Social Organization Trade Theology Philosophy History Aesthetics Science Broad-School EP = Narrow-School EP Plus The Adapted Human Mind

Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = General Intelligence: Technology Logistics Social Organization Trade Theology Philosophy History Aesthetics Science Broad-School EP = Narrow-School EP Plus Humanist EP = Broad-School EP Plus Imagination: Religion Art Music Stories Myths Ideology The Adapted Human Mind

Humanist EP = Broad-School EP Plus Imagination: Religion Art Music Stories Myths Ideology The Evolved and Adapted Human Mind

Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = General Intelligence: Technology Logistics Social Organization Trade Theology Philosophy History Aesthetics Science Broad-School EP = Narrow-School EP Plus Humanist EP = Broad-School EP Plus Imagination: Religion Art Music Stories Myths Ideology The Adapted Human Mind

The fully human mind is like a matryoshka doll It has nested levels.

Narrow-School EP Basic Motives

Narrow-School EP Broad-School EP Basic Motives General Intelligence

Narrow-School EP Broad-School EP Humanist EP Basic Motives General Intelligence Imagination

What does all this have to do with Aesthetics and literary Criticism?

Human nature

Motives, Passions = Human life history

Human nature

Specific cultures

Human nature Specific cultures Individual artists

Human nature Specific cultures Individual artists Particular works of art

Human nature Specific cultures Individual artists

Human nature Specific cultures Individual artists Particular works of art

Weve come this far.

What comes next?

More complete integration between human universals and specific historical periods.

Human universals Specific cultures Individual artists Particular works of art

Human universals Specific cultures Individual artists Particular works of art

We have made some progress.

Well Make more.

Thanks for your attention.