Arguing About Human Nature
Contemporary Debates
Herausgeber: Downes, Stephen M; Machery, Edouard
Arguing About Human Nature
Contemporary Debates
Herausgeber: Downes, Stephen M; Machery, Edouard
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Arguing About Human Nature covers recent debates--arising from biology, philosophy, psychology, and physical anthropology--that together systematically examine what it means to be human. Thirty-five essays--several of them appearing here for the first time in print--were carefully selected to offer competing perspectives on 12 different topics related to human nature. Arguing About Human Nature is the first volume of its kind, designed to introduce to an interdisciplinary student audience some of the most important arguments on the subject generated by scientific research and philosophical reflection.…mehr
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- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
- Seitenzahl: 612
- Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 257mm x 188mm x 38mm
- Gewicht: 1256g
- ISBN-13: 9780415894395
- ISBN-10: 0415894395
- Artikelnr.: 32848593
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
- Seitenzahl: 612
- Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 257mm x 188mm x 38mm
- Gewicht: 1256g
- ISBN-13: 9780415894395
- ISBN-10: 0415894395
- Artikelnr.: 32848593
1.1. Excerpts from On Human Nature E. O. Wilson 1.2. On human nature D. L.
Hull 1.3. Excerpts from Adapting Minds David J. Buller 1.4. A plea for
human nature Edouard Machery 1.5. What is a human universal? Human
behavioral ecology and human nature Elizabeth Cashdan Topic 2: A Stone-Age
Mind? 2.1. Evolutionary psychology: A primer Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
2.2. The basic components of the human mind were not solidified during the
Pleistocene epoch Stephen Downes Topic 3: Innateness 3.1. Core knowledge
Katherine D. Kinzler and Elizabeth S. Spelke 3.2. What is innateness? Paul
E. Griffiths 3.3. Innateness in cognitive science Richard Samuels Topic 4:
Genetic Determinism 4.1 Genetic influence on human psychological traits: A
survey Thomas J. Bouchard 4.2. Behavioral development and Darwinian
evolution Patrick Bateson 4.3. Battling the undead: How (and how not) to
resist genetic determinism Philip Kitcher Section 2: Human nature and Human
Diversity Topic 5: Human Universals, Individual Variation and Cultural
Variation 5.1. Excerpts from Human Universals Donald Brown 5.2. The
weirdest people in the world? Joe Heinrich, Steven J. Heine, and Ara
Norenzayan 5.3. On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of
the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation James Tooby and Leda
Cosmides 5.4. Culture and cognition Daniel M. T. Fessler and Edouard
Machery 5.5. Exceprts from Not by Genes Alone Peter J. Richerson and
Robert Boyd 5.6. The informational commonwealth Kim Sterenley Topic 6:
Social Construction 6.1. The politics of menopause: The "discovery" of a
deficiency disease Frances B. McCrea 6.2. The looping effects of human
kinds Ian Hacking 6.3. The odd couple: The compatibility of social
construction and evolutionary psychology Ronald Mallon and Stephen Stitch
Topic 7: Human Genetic Diversity 7.1. The apportionment of human diversity
Richard Lewontin 7.3. Human genetic diversity: Lewontin's fallacy A. W. F.
Edwards 7.4. Genetic structure of human populations N. A. Rosenberg Topic
8: Races 8.1. A social constructionist analysis of race Sally A. Haslanger
Individual ancestry inference and the reification of race as a biological
phenomenon Dan Bolnick Topic 9: Sex 9.1. Excerpt from The Evolution of
Human Sexuality Donald Symons 9.2. Excerpt from Human Nature and the Limits
of Science John Dupré 9.3. Same-sex sexual behavior and evolution Nathan W.
Bailey and Marlene Zuk Section 3: Human Nature and Normality Topic 10:
Health 10.1. Health as a theoretical concept Christopher Boorse 10.2.
Against normal functions Ron Admunson 10.3. Mental Health and Disorder R.
C. Cooper Topic 11: Politics and the Concept of Human Nature 11.1. A fatal
attraction to normalizing Anita Silvers 11.2. "Human nature" and its role
in feminist theory L. M. Antony 11.3. Is human nature important for
feminism? Nancy Holstrom Topic 12: Trans-humanism 12.1. Ageless bodies,
happy souls: Biotechnology and the pursuit of Perfection Leon Kass 12.2. In
defense of posthuman dignity Nick Bostrom
1.1. Excerpts from On Human Nature E. O. Wilson 1.2. On human nature D. L.
Hull 1.3. Excerpts from Adapting Minds David J. Buller 1.4. A plea for
human nature Edouard Machery 1.5. What is a human universal? Human
behavioral ecology and human nature Elizabeth Cashdan Topic 2: A Stone-Age
Mind? 2.1. Evolutionary psychology: A primer Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
2.2. The basic components of the human mind were not solidified during the
Pleistocene epoch Stephen Downes Topic 3: Innateness 3.1. Core knowledge
Katherine D. Kinzler and Elizabeth S. Spelke 3.2. What is innateness? Paul
E. Griffiths 3.3. Innateness in cognitive science Richard Samuels Topic 4:
Genetic Determinism 4.1 Genetic influence on human psychological traits: A
survey Thomas J. Bouchard 4.2. Behavioral development and Darwinian
evolution Patrick Bateson 4.3. Battling the undead: How (and how not) to
resist genetic determinism Philip Kitcher Section 2: Human nature and Human
Diversity Topic 5: Human Universals, Individual Variation and Cultural
Variation 5.1. Excerpts from Human Universals Donald Brown 5.2. The
weirdest people in the world? Joe Heinrich, Steven J. Heine, and Ara
Norenzayan 5.3. On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of
the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation James Tooby and Leda
Cosmides 5.4. Culture and cognition Daniel M. T. Fessler and Edouard
Machery 5.5. Exceprts from Not by Genes Alone Peter J. Richerson and
Robert Boyd 5.6. The informational commonwealth Kim Sterenley Topic 6:
Social Construction 6.1. The politics of menopause: The "discovery" of a
deficiency disease Frances B. McCrea 6.2. The looping effects of human
kinds Ian Hacking 6.3. The odd couple: The compatibility of social
construction and evolutionary psychology Ronald Mallon and Stephen Stitch
Topic 7: Human Genetic Diversity 7.1. The apportionment of human diversity
Richard Lewontin 7.3. Human genetic diversity: Lewontin's fallacy A. W. F.
Edwards 7.4. Genetic structure of human populations N. A. Rosenberg Topic
8: Races 8.1. A social constructionist analysis of race Sally A. Haslanger
Individual ancestry inference and the reification of race as a biological
phenomenon Dan Bolnick Topic 9: Sex 9.1. Excerpt from The Evolution of
Human Sexuality Donald Symons 9.2. Excerpt from Human Nature and the Limits
of Science John Dupré 9.3. Same-sex sexual behavior and evolution Nathan W.
Bailey and Marlene Zuk Section 3: Human Nature and Normality Topic 10:
Health 10.1. Health as a theoretical concept Christopher Boorse 10.2.
Against normal functions Ron Admunson 10.3. Mental Health and Disorder R.
C. Cooper Topic 11: Politics and the Concept of Human Nature 11.1. A fatal
attraction to normalizing Anita Silvers 11.2. "Human nature" and its role
in feminist theory L. M. Antony 11.3. Is human nature important for
feminism? Nancy Holstrom Topic 12: Trans-humanism 12.1. Ageless bodies,
happy souls: Biotechnology and the pursuit of Perfection Leon Kass 12.2. In
defense of posthuman dignity Nick Bostrom