title: Metarepresentations in an evolutionary perspective creator: Sperber, Dan subject: Cognitive Psychology subject: Evolutionary Psychology subject: Pragmatics subject: Philosophy of Language subject: Philosophy of Mind description: Humans are expert users of metarepresentations. How has this human metarepresentational capacity evolved? In order to contribute to the ongoing debate on this question, the chapter focuses on three more specific issues: i. How do humans metarepresent representations? ii. What came first: language, or metarepresentations? iii. Do humans have more than one metarepresentational ability? publisher: Oxford University Press, New York contributor: Sperber, Dan date: 2000 type: Book Chapter type: NonPeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/851/1/metarep.htm identifier: Sperber, Dan (2000) Metarepresentations in an evolutionary perspective. [Book Chapter] (In Press) relation: http://cogprints.org/851/