World Ordering: A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution

by Emanuel Adler

Book Overview

Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach, this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative theory of change and stability of international social orders. It argues that practices and their background knowledge survive preferentially, communities of practice serve as their vehicle, and social orders evolve. As an evolutionary theory of world ordering, which does...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110841995X
• ISBN13: 9781108419956
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.1" x 8.3"