Eveline Seghers- PhD Art History
- PostDoc Position at University of New Mexico
Eveline Seghers
- PhD Art History
- PostDoc Position at University of New Mexico
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October 2017 - June 2018
March 2012 - December 2015
October 2016 - September 2017
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October 2011 - December 2015
September 2010 - September 2011
October 2008 - September 2009
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Evolutionary psychology is among the various evolutionary and cognitive perspectives that have been used to account for the
origins of art. It sets out to explain modern human psychology by means of the evolutionary history of the species, and by
determining why and how our extant cognitive machinery evolved as adaptations to past environmental sur...
Aside from humans, artistic behavior has been attributed to species varying from bowerbirds to elephants. The most notable case are non-human primate species, and chimpanzees in particular. Some researchers have stated that the latter provide us with a window to the evolution of human art via the phylogenetic tree. However, little argumentation has...
Art is often described as an evolutionary adaptation, but not enough thought has been given to arguments in support of this claim. This can lead to a variety of explanatory issues, such as unjustly describing artmaking as an adaptation, not recognizing its complex nature, and its potentially even more complex evolutionary trajectory. This paper add...
Een van de recente ontwikkelingen binnen evolutiepsychologie is het onderzoek naar evolutionaire esthetica, of darwinistisch geïnspireerd onderzoek naar de kwalitatieve beoordeling van natuurlijke en artificiële stimuli. Esthetica wordt in de westerse traditie echter traditioneel vanuit filosofisch en speculatief oogpunt benaderd. Ik illustreer de...
Evolutionary aesthetics attempts to explain the human ability to perceive objects, conspecifics and the surrounding environment in an aesthetic manner - i.e. in an emotional and evaluative way resulting in a positive or negative appraisal - by referring to the evolutionary history of our functional, cognitive make-up. Research has mostly focussed o...
Keywords: cognitive archaeology, geometrically engraved artefacts, symbolic cognition
Keywords: evolution of art, evolution of religion
Keywords: primatology, comparative psychology, artistic cognition
