Eric Luttrell | Why do humans reason? Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber's theory of the evolution of rhetoric @ericluttrell | Uploaded March 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
This lecture video is a brief introduction to evolutionary psychology as it is relevant to the interactionist theory of argument advanced by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber. It accompanies the assigned reading of an Edge.org interview with Mercier available here: edge.org/conversation/hugo_mercier-the-argumentative-theory.