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Autore: |
Schulkin Jay
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Titolo: |
Cognitive adaptation : a pragmatist perspective / / Jay Schulkin
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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 153 |
Soggetto topico: | Cognition |
Adaptation (Physiology) | |
Neuropsychology | |
Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cognitive adaptation : objects and inquiry -- The human situation : uncertainty and adaptation -- Time and memory : historical sensibilities -- Education : learning from others, neurogenesis -- Cognitive and neurobiological basis of religious inquiry -- Conclusion : demythologized reason. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Cognitive Adaptation: A Pragmatist Perspective argues that there is a fundamental link between cognitive/neural systems and evolution that underlies human activity. One important result is that the line between nature and culture and scientific and humanistic inquiry is quite permeable - the two are fairly continuous with each other. Two concepts figure importantly in our human ascent: agency and animacy. The first is the recognition of another person as having beliefs, desires, and a sense of experience. The second term is the recognition of an object as alive, a piece of biology. Both reflect a predilection in our cognitive architecture that is fundamental to an evolving, but fragile, sense of humanity. The book further argues for a regulative norm of self-corrective inquiry, an appreciation of the hypothetical nature of all knowledge. Schulkin's perspective is rooted in contemporary behavioral and cognitive neuroscience. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Cognitive adaptation ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-107-19153-X |
1-281-79133-4 | |
9786611791339 | |
0-511-42943-6 | |
0-511-42824-3 | |
0-511-42981-9 | |
0-511-42763-8 | |
0-511-49998-1 | |
0-511-42895-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910816825503321 |
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