The Evolution of Mind
Title | The Evolution of Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Denise D. Cummins |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780195110531 |
In The Evolution of Mind, outstanding figures on the cutting edge of evolutionary psychology follow clues provided by current neuroscientific evidence to illuminate many puzzling questions of human cognitive evolution. With contributions from psychologists, ethologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, the book offers a broad range of approaches to explore the mysteries of the mind's evolution - from investigating the biological functions of human cognition to drawing comparisons between human and animal cognitive abilities.
The Origin of Mind
Title | The Origin of Mind PDF eBook |
Author | David C. Geary |
Publisher | Amer Psychological Assn |
Pages | 459 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9781591471813 |
"Geary also explores a number of issues that are of interest in modern society, including how general intelligence relates to academic achievement, occupational status, and income."--BOOK JACKET.
Evolution and the Human Mind
Title | Evolution and the Human Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Carruthers |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2000-11-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521789080 |
This volume of essays offers an interdisciplinary examination of the evolution of the human mind.
Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind
Title | Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Schaller |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 712 |
Release | 2011-03-17 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1136950494 |
An enormous amount of scientific research compels two fundamental conclusions about the human mind: The mind is the product of evolution; and the mind is shaped by culture. These two perspectives on the human mind are not incompatible, but, until recently, their compatibility has resisted rigorous scholarly inquiry. Evolutionary psychology documents many ways in which genetic adaptations govern the operations of the human mind. But evolutionary inquiries only occasionally grapple seriously with questions about human culture and cross-cultural differences. By contrast, cultural psychology documents many ways in which thought and behavior are shaped by different cultural experiences. But cultural inquires rarely consider evolutionary processes. Even after decades of intensive research, these two perspectives on human psychology have remained largely divorced from each other. But that is now changing - and that is what this book is about. Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind is the first scholarly book to integrate evolutionary and cultural perspectives on human psychology. The contributors include world-renowned evolutionary, cultural, social, and cognitive psychologists. These chapters reveal many novel insights linking human evolution to both human cognition and human culture – including the evolutionary origins of cross-cultural differences. The result is a stimulating introduction to an emerging integrative perspective on human nature.
Evolution in Mind
Title | Evolution in Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Plotkin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780140249279 |
From the nature-nurture question which has occupied philosophers and scientists for thousands of years to the most recent debates about how the mind is structured, Plotkin looks at what it means to be human from an evolutionist's perspective.
A History of the Mind
Title | A History of the Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Humphrey |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1999-06-18 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780387987194 |
This book is a tour-de-force on how human consciousness may have evolved. From the "phantom pain" experienced by people who have lost their limbs to the uncanny faculty of "blindsight," Humphrey argues that raw sensations are central to all conscious states and that consciousness must have evolved, just like all other mental faculties, over time from our ancestors'bodily responses to pain and pleasure. "Humphrey is one of that growing band of scientists who beat literary folk at their own game"-RICHARD DAWKINS "A wonderful bookbrilliant, unsettling, and beautifully written. Humphrey cuts bravely through the currents of contemporary thinking, opening up new vistas on old problems offering a feast of provocative ideas." -DANIEL DENNETT
Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior
Title | Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Richards |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 719 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0226712001 |
With insight and wit, Robert J. Richards focuses on the development of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior from their first distinct appearance in the eighteenth century to their controversial state today. Particularly important in the nineteenth century were Charles Darwin's ideas about instinct, reason, and morality, which Richards considers against the background of Darwin's personality, training, scientific and cultural concerns, and intellectual community. Many critics have argued that the Darwinian revolution stripped nature of moral purpose and ethically neutered the human animal. Richards contends, however, that Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and their disciples attempted to reanimate moral life, believing that the evolutionary process gave heart to unselfish, altruistic behavior. "Richards's book is now the obvious introduction to the history of ideas about mind and behavior in the nineteenth century."—Mark Ridley, Times Literary Supplement "Not since the publication of Michael Ghiselin's The Triumph of the Darwinian Method has there been such an ambitious, challenging, and methodologically self-conscious interpretation of the rise and development and evolutionary theories and Darwin's role therein."—John C. Greene, Science "His book . . . triumphantly achieves the goal of all great scholarship: it not only informs us, but shows us why becoming thus informed is essential to understanding our own issues and projects."—Daniel C. Dennett, Philosophy of Science