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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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[en] MEMETIC CONTROVERSIES: THE SCIENCE OF MEMES AND THE UNIVERSAL DARWINISM OF DAWKINS, DENNETT AND BLACKMORE / [pt] CONTROVÉRSIAS MEMÉTICAS: A CIÊNCIA DOS MEMES E O DARWINISMO UNIVERSAL EM DAWKINS, DENNETT E BLACKMORE

GUSTAVO LEAL TOLEDO 26 May 2009 (has links)
[pt] O conceito de memes surgiu em 1976 com Richard Dawkins como um análogo cultural dos genes. Deveria ser possível estudar a cultura através do processo de evolução por seleção natural de memes, ou seja, de comportamentos, idéias e conceitos. O filósofo Daniel Dennett utilizou tal conceito como central em sua teoria da consciência e pela primeira vez divulgou para o grande público a possibilidade de uma ciência dos memes chamada memética. A pesquisadora Susan Blackmore, 1999, foi quem mais se aproximou de uma defesa completa de tal teoria. No entanto, a memética sofreu pesadas críticas e ainda não se constituiu como uma ciência, com métodos e uma base empírica bem definida. A presente tese visa entrar nesta discussão, analisando todas as principais críticas que foram feitas com o objetivo de analisar se a memética poderia de fato ser uma ciência e também que tipo de ciência ela seria. / [en] The concept of memes was created by Richard Dawkins in 1976 as an analogue of genes. It suggests the possibility of studying culture through a process of evolution through natural selection of memes, that is, of behaviors, ideas and concepts. The concept became central for the philosopher Daniel Dennett, who employed it in his theory of consciousness and made the possibility of a science of memes called memetics known to the general public. Researcher Susan Blackmore, 1999, came very close to a complete defense of such theory. However, memetics was the target of heavy criticism, and could still not establish itself as a science, with specific methods and a well-defined empirical base. The present work aims to engage in this discussion, examining the main critics and seeking to establish whether memetics could in fact be a science, and, if so, what kind of science it would be.

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