Contents

Series Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Developing Scaffolds: An Introduction

Linnda R. Caporael, James R. Griesemer, and William C. Wimsatt

I  Toward Materiality: Three Perspectives

1  Reproduction and the Scaffolded Development of Hybrids

James R. Griesemer

2  Evolution, Groups, and Scaffolded Minds

Linnda R. Caporael

3  Entrenchment and Scaffolding: An Architecture for a Theory of Cultural Change

William C. Wimsatt

II  Scope and Scale

4  Excitable Media in Medias Res: How Physics Scaffolds Metazoan Development and Evolution

Stuart A. Newman

5  Communication and the Evolution of Cognition

James A. Evans

6  Models as Scaffolds for Understanding

Jeffrey C. Schank, Christopher J. May, and Sanjay S. Joshi

III  Generativity, Entrenchment, and Boundaries

7  Stress in Mind: A Stress Response Hypothesis of Cognitive Evolution

Pamela Lyon

8  Onwards and Upwards with the Extended Mind: From Individual to Collective Epistemic Action

Georg Theiner

9  Scaffolding on Core Cognition

Christophe Heintz

IV  Granularity and Reciprocality

10  Symbols as Scaffolding

Colin Allen

11  Technological Scaffoldings for the Evolution of Culture and Cognition

Sergio F. Martínez

12  Some Problems of Analyzing Cultural Evolution

Elihu M. Gerson

V  Reproduction and Development

13  Scaffolding in Economics, Management, and the Design of Technologies

Johann Peter Murmann

14  The Reproduction of the Social: A Developmental System Approach

Iddo Tavory, Simona Ginsburg, and Eva Jablonka

15  Biocultural Coconstruction of Brain Plasticity across the Life Span: From Cognitive Training to Neurotransmitters

Shu-Chen Li

16  Footholds and Handholds: Scaffolding Cognition and Career

Barbara Horberg Wimsatt

Developing Scaffolds: An Epilogue

James R. Griesemer, Linnda R. Caporael, and William C. Wimsatt

Contributors

Index