The Quest For Human Nature
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The Quest For Human Nature
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Author : Marco J. Nathan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
The Quest For Human Nature written by Marco J. Nathan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Philosophy categories.
Over the last few decades, biology, psychology, anthropology, and cognate fields have substantially enriched traditional philosophical theories about who we are and where we come from. Nevertheless, the hallowed topic of human nature remains frustratingly elusive. Why have we not been able to crack the mystery? Marco J. Nathan provides an overview and explanation of recent research and argues that human nature is a core scientific concept that is not susceptible to an explanation, scientific or otherwise. He traces the scientific history of human nature to conclude that, as an epistemological indicator, science cannot adequately grasp human nature without dissolving it in the process
Adapting Minds
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Author : David J. Buller
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2006-02-17
Adapting Minds written by David J. Buller and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-17 with Psychology categories.
Was human nature designed by natural selection in the Pleistocene epoch? The dominant view in evolutionary psychology holds that it was—that our psychological adaptations were designed tens of thousands of years ago to solve problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. In this provocative and lively book, David Buller examines in detail the major claims of evolutionary psychology—the paradigm popularized by Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate and by David Buss in The Evolution of Desire—and rejects them all. This does not mean that we cannot apply evolutionary theory to human psychology, says Buller, but that the conventional wisdom in evolutionary psychology is misguided. Evolutionary psychology employs a kind of reverse engineering to explain the evolved design of the mind, figuring out the adaptive problems our ancestors faced and then inferring the psychological adaptations that evolved to solve them. In the carefully argued central chapters of Adapting Minds, Buller scrutinizes several of evolutionary psychology's most highly publicized "discoveries," including "discriminative parental solicitude" (the idea that stepparents abuse their stepchildren at a higher rate than genetic parents abuse their biological children). Drawing on a wide range of empirical research, including his own large-scale study of child abuse, he shows that none is actually supported by the evidence. Buller argues that our minds are not adapted to the Pleistocene, but, like the immune system, are continually adapting, over both evolutionary time and individual lifetimes. We must move beyond the reigning orthodoxy of evolutionary psychology to reach an accurate understanding of how human psychology is influenced by evolution. When we do, Buller claims, we will abandon not only the quest for human nature but the very idea of human nature itself.
Vaulting Ambition
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Author : Philip Kitcher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Vaulting Ambition written by Philip Kitcher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Sociobiology categories.
Human Nature And The Limits Of Science
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Author : John Dupré
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2001
Human Nature And The Limits Of Science written by John Dupré and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Science categories.
Dupré warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. He claims it is important to resist scientism - an exaggerated conception of what science can be expected to do.
Vaulting Ambition
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Author : Philip Kitcher
language : en
Publisher: Mit Press
Release Date : 1987-01
Vaulting Ambition written by Philip Kitcher and has been published by Mit Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01 with Science categories.
Provides a critical analysis of the evidence for the sociobiologists' theories that the basis of human behavior is biological and genetic
Human Nature And Human Development
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Author : Maithreyi Krishnaraj
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Human Nature And Human Development written by Maithreyi Krishnaraj and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Buddhist philosophy categories.
The Title 'Human Nature and Human Development: A Philosophical Quest written by Maithreyi Krishnaraj' was published in the year 2017. The ISBN number 9789351282228 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 180 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Buddhism / Psychology / Human Development, ABOUT THE BOOK: - The book looks at different perspectives by different disciplines like Biology
Is There A Human Nature
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Author : Leroy S. Rouner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Is There A Human Nature written by Leroy S. Rouner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Humans are deeply convinced that there is something distinct about us as a species, but have never been able to agree on what it is. The first group of essays in this volume make a philosophical attempt at definition, while the second recognizes that we are what we do as well as what we say we are.
On Human Nature
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Author : Roger Scruton
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-16
On Human Nature written by Roger Scruton and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Philosophy categories.
A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. We are not only human animals; we are also persons, in essential relation with other persons, and bound to them by obligations and rights. Scruton develops and defends his account of human nature by ranging widely across intellectual history, from Plato and Averroës to Darwin and Wittgenstein. The book begins with Kant’s suggestion that we are distinguished by our ability to say “I”—by our sense of ourselves as the centers of self-conscious reflection. This fact is manifested in our emotions, interests, and relations. It is the foundation of the moral sense, as well as of the aesthetic and religious conceptions through which we shape the human world and endow it with meaning. And it lies outside the scope of modern materialist philosophy, even though it is a natural and not a supernatural fact. Ultimately, Scruton offers a new way of understanding how self-consciousness affects the question of how we should live. The result is a rich view of human nature that challenges some of today’s most fashionable ideas about our species.
Human Nature
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Author : Christopher J. Berry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Human Nature written by Christopher J. Berry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Law categories.
Is Human Nature Obsolete
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Author : Harold W. Baillie
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2005
Is Human Nature Obsolete written by Harold W. Baillie and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Electronic books categories.
An interdisciplinary exploration of whether modern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future.