Publications

  1. Charbonneau, M. (ed.) (forthcoming) The Evolution of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  2. Charbonneau, M., Sperber, D. (forthcoming) Introduction, in. The Evolution of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  3. Charbonneau, M., Strachan, J. W. A., Winters, J. (2023) The problem with solutions: A commentary of “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten, Physics of Life Reviews, 44, 61-63. (pdf)
  4. Charbonneau, M., Strachan, J. W. A. (2022) From copying to coordination: an alternative framework for understanding cultural learning mechanisms, Journal of Cognition and Culture, 22, 451-466. (pdf)
  5. Buskell, A., Charbonneau, M. (2022) Fidelity, stances, and explaining cultural stability, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e253. Commentary on Jagiello et al. “Bifocal Stance Theory: an effort to broaden, extend, and clarify”. (online)
  6. Bourrat, P., Charbonneau, M. (2022) Grains of description in biological and cultural transmission, Journal of Cognition and Culture, 22, 185-202. (pdf)
  7. Acerbi, A., Charbonneau, M., Miton, H., Scott-Phillips, T. (2021) Culture without copying or selection, Evolutionary Human Sciences, 3, e50, 1-17. (pdf)
  8. Strachan, J. W. A., Curioni, A., Constable, M., Knoblich, G., Charbonneau, M. (2021) Evaluating the relative contributions of copying and reconstruction processes in cultural transmission episodes, PLOS ONE 16(9): e0256901. (pdf)
  9. Charbonneau, M., Bourrat P. (2021) Fidelity and the grain problem in cultural evolution. Synthese, 199, 5815-5836. (pdf)
  10. Charbonneau, M. (2020) Understanding cultural fidelity. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 71, 1209-33. (pdf)
  11. Strachan, J., Curioni, A., Constable, M., Knoblich, G., Charbonneau, M. (2020) A methodology for distinguishing copying and reconstruction in cultural transmission episodes, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2020, 3433-3439 (pdf)
  12. Charbonneau, M. (2020) Review of Love, A. C., and Wimsatt, W. C. (eds), Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2020, 42-47 (pdf)
  13. Heintz, C., Charbonneau, M., Fogelman, J. (2019) Integration and the disunity of the social sciences, In. Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Social Science: A Dialogue, Nagatsu, M., and Ruzzene, A. (eds.), Bloomsbury. (pdf)
  14. Miton, H., Charbonneau, M. (2018) Cumulative culture in the laboratory: methodological and theoretical challenges. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 285:20180677 (pdf)
  15. Charbonneau, M. (2018) Technical Constraints on Technological Evolution, In. Convergent Evolution and Stone-Tool Technology, Buchanan, B., Eren, M. I., and O’Brien, M.J. (eds.), 73-89. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. (pdf)
  16. Charbonneau, M. (2018) Evo-Devo and Culture. Evolutionary Developmental Biology – A Reference Guide, Nuño de la Rosa, L., Müller, G., & Balari Ravera, S. (eds.), Online chapter, Springer. (pdf)
  17. Charbonneau, M. (2016) Modularity and recombination in technological evolution. Philosophy & Technology, 29, 373-392. (pdf)
  18. Charbonneau, M. (2015) All innovations are equal, but some more than others: (Re)integrating modification processes to the origins of cumulative culture. Biological Theory, 10, 322-35. (pdf)
  19. Charbonneau, M. (2015) Mapping complex social transmission: Technical constraints on the evolution of cultures. Biology & Philosophy, 30, 527-46. (pdf)
  20. Charbonneau, M. (2015) Review of Caporael, L., Griesemer, J. R., et Wimsatt, W. C. (eds.), Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition. Cambridge, MIT Press, 2014, xiv + 426pp. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 37(2):228–230. (pdf)
  21. Charbonneau, M. (2014) Populations without Reproduction. Philosophy of Science, 81, 727-40. (pdf)
  22. Charbonneau, M. (2013) The cognitive life of mechanical molecular models. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 44, 585-94. (pdf)
  23. Charbonneau, M. (2013) Le réductionnisme scientifique et matérialisme éliminativiste. In. Matériaux Philosophiques Et Scientifiques Pour Un Matérialisme Contemporain, Silberstein, M. (ed.), 213-44. Paris : Éditions Matériologiques.
  24. Charbonneau, M. (2010) Extended thing knowledge. Spontaneous Generation: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 4(1), 116-28. (pdf)
  25. Charbonneau, M. (2008) Du statut empirique du matérialisme éliminativiste. Ithaque, 3, 153-71.

Online publications

  1. Charbonneau, M. (2020) The Participatory Age. ‘Cultural evolution in the digital age’ Book Club, International Culture and Cognition Institute. 19 June 2020. http://cognitionandculture.net/webinars/cultural-evolution-in-the-digital-age/the-participatory-age/
  2. Charbonneau, M. (2016) Your very own monster creation kit. ‘The Origins of Monsters’ Book Club, International Culture and Cognition Institute. 22 January 2016. http://cognitionandculture.net/webinars/the-origins-of-monsters-book-club/your-very-own-monster-creation-kit/
  3. Charbonneau, M. (2015) Intending to speak our minds, and speaking our minds. ‘Speaking our minds’ Book Club, International Culture and Cognition Institute. 19 June 2020. http://cognitionandculture.net/webinars/speaking-our-minds-book-club/intending-to-speak-our-mind-and-speaking-our-mind/