Biologising the Social Sciences

Challenging Darwinian and Neuroscience Explanations
Herausgeber: Canter, David; Turner, David

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Produktbeschreibung

There is a growing number of scholars who are challenging the assumption that we are little more than our bodies and animal origins. This volume brings together a review of these emerging critiques expressed by an international range of senior academics from across the social sciences. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781138922921
• ISBN-10: 1138922927
• Artikelnr.: 42235951

Autorenporträt

David Canter is Professor of Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, UK. David Turner is Professor Emeritus at the University of Glamorgan, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Raymond Tallis 1. Challenging neuroscience and evolutionary
explanations of social and psychological processes David Canter 2. The
evolution of consciousness Max Velmans 3. The biological myth of human
evolution Jonathan Marks 4. Defining addiction, with more humanity? Woody
Caan 5. Education and neuroscience David A. Turner 6. The mismeasurement of
youth: why adolescent brain science is bad science Judith Bessant and Rob
Watts 7. Disordered selves Richard S. Hallam 8. Biologising reading
problems: the specific case of dyslexia João Lopes 9. Postscript: The
ethics of Darwinism David Turner and David Canter