#136 Patrick Colm Hogan: Evolution, Human Universals, Arts, and Literature

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Dr. Patrick Colm Hogan is Distinguished Professor of the Department of English, and the Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, at the University of Connecticut, US. His specialties are: literary theory, cognitive and affective science of literature, and world literature. He’s the author of several books, including The Mind and Its Stories, What Literature Teaches Us About Emotion, and Beauty and Sublimity.

In this episode, we talk about human universals. First, we discuss what are human universals, and how we can determine them. Then, we talk more specifically about aesthetic human universals, including their evolutionary bases; sexual selection; Individual and social experiences of aesthetics; universals in literary fiction; the social function of literature; and literature, storytelling and theory of mind.

Time Links:

00:46 What are human universals?

05:36 How do we determine them?            

14:45 The evolutionary bases of aesthetics and beauty        

28:05 Sexual selection for artistic behavior    

34:58 Individual and social experiences of aesthetics   

47:52 Modularity of mind and aesthetic response   

1:04:07 Universals in literary fiction  

1:11:24 The social function of literature and oral storytelling 

1:29:31 Literature, storytelling and theory of mind

1:33:32 The study of innate aspects of the human mind in the Humanities

1:40:09 The importance of evolutionary and neuroscientific science

1:41:42 Follow Dr. Colm Hogan’s work!

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