Conversations on human nature / / Agustin Fuentes and Aku Visala

• Autore: Fuentes Agustin
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetto topico: Philosophical anthropology; Human beings; Scholars
• Altri autori: VisalaAku
• Note generali: First published 2016 by Left Coast Press, Inc.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue Human Nature-A Contested Concept ; Chapter 1 Defining and Debating Human Nature; Chapter 2 Evolution, Brains, and Human Nature; Francisco Ayala; Edouard Machery; Kevin Laland; Patrick Bateson; Robin Dunbar; Phillip Sloan; Chapter 3 The Biocultural Animal; Tim Ingold; Jonathan Marks; Barbara J. King; Robert Sussman; Kim Sterelny; Warren Brown; Chapter 4 Persons and Human Nature; Christian Smith; Dean Zimmerman; Carl Gillett; Lynne Rudder Baker; Chapter 5 Human Nature, Religion, and Theology; Wesley Wildman; Lluis Oviedo ; J. Wentzel van HuyssteenCelia Deane-Drummond; Joel Green; Chapter 6 Parting Thoughts on Human Nature(s); Index; About the Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: Recent empirical and philosophical research into the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, the origins of the mind/brain, and the development of human culture has sparked heated debates about what it means to be human and how knowledge about humans from the sciences and humanities should be understood. Conversations on Human Nature, featuring 20 interviews with leading scholars in biology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and theology, brings these debates to life for teachers, students, and general readers. The book-outlines the basic scientific, philosophical and theological issues involved in understanding human nature;-organizes material from the various disciplines under four broad headings: (1) evolution, brains and human nature; (2) biocultural human nature; (3) persons, minds and human nature, (4) religion, theology and human nature; -concludes with Fuentes and Visala's discussion of what researchers into human nature agree on, what they disagree on, and what we need to learn to resolve those differences.
• Titolo autorizzato: Conversations on human nature
• ISBN: 1-315-43153-X; 1-315-43152-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910975144703321
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