Abstract

In this article we propose to address the topic concerning the nature/culture dichotomy and its relationship with the issue of anthropological difference. We will reconstruct some of the central points of the recent debate around these notions, and then get into the philosophical consequences that, as we understand them, can be derived from the research of contemporary evolutionary psychologist Michael Tomasello. We will place the emphasis on the reconstruction of their arguments about the close relationship between human cognition and culture, defining their specificity with respect to those of nonhuman primates. What is proposed is, in broad strokes, a look at the relationship between culture and cognition.