Arguing About Human Nature Contemporary Debates Arguing About Philosophy 1st Edition by Stephen M Downes, Edouard Machery ISBN 0415894395 9780415894395
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Author: Stephen M Downes, Edouard Machery
Arguing About Human Nature covers recent debates–arising from biology, philosophy, psychology, and physical anthropology–that together systematically examine what it means to be human. Thirty-five essays–several of them appearing here for the first time in print–were carefully selected to offer competing perspectives on 12 different topics related to human nature. The context and main threads of the debates are highlighted and explained by the editors in a short, clear introduction to each of the 12 topics. Authors include Louise Anthony, Patrick Bateson, David Buller, John Dupre, Paul Griffiths, Sally Haslanger, Richard Lewontin, Ron Mallon, and E.O. Wilson. Contributors Rachel Cooper, Nancy Holmstrom, Kim Sterelny, and Elizabeth Cashdan provide brand new chapters in these debates.
Suggested Reading lists offer curious readers new resources for exploring these debates further. Arguing About Human Nature is the first volume of its kind, designed to introduce to an interdisciplinary student audience some of the most important arguments on the subject generated by scientific research and philosophical reflection.
Arguing About Human Nature Contemporary Debates Arguing About Philosophy 1st Table of contents:
Section 1: Human Nature and Evolution
Topic 1: Evolution and Human Nature
1.1. Excerpts from On Human Nature – E. O. Wilson
1.2. On Human Nature – D. L. Hull
1.3. Excerpts from Adapting Minds – David J. Buller
1.4. A Plea for Human Nature – Edouard Machery
1.5. What is a Human Universal? Human Behavioral Ecology and Human Nature – Elizabeth Cashdan
Topic 2: A Stone-Age Mind?
2.1. Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer – Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
2.2. The Basic Components of the Human Mind Were Not Solidified During the Pleistocene Epoch – Stephen Downes
Topic 3: Innateness
3.1. Core Knowledge – Katherine D. Kinzler and Elizabeth S. Spelke
3.2. What is Innateness? – Paul E. Griffiths
3.3. Innateness in Cognitive Science – Richard Samuels
Topic 4: Genetic Determinism
4.1. Genetic Influence on Human Psychological Traits: A Survey – Thomas J. Bouchard
4.2. Behavioral Development and Darwinian Evolution – Patrick Bateson
4.3. Battling the Undead: How (and How Not) to Resist Genetic Determinism – Philip Kitcher
Section 2: Human Nature and Human Diversity
Topic 5: Human Universals, Individual Variation, and Cultural Variation
5.1. Excerpts from Human Universals – Donald Brown
5.2. The Weirdest People in the World? – Joe Heinrich, Steven J. Heine, and Ara Norenzayan
5.3. On the Universality of Human Nature and the Uniqueness of the Individual: The Role of Genetics and Adaptation – James Tooby and Leda Cosmides
5.4. Culture and Cognition – Daniel M. T. Fessler and Edouard Machery
5.5. Excerpts from Not by Genes Alone – Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd
5.6. The Informational Commonwealth – Kim Sterenley
Topic 6: Social Construction
6.1. The Politics of Menopause: The “Discovery” of a Deficiency Disease – Frances B. McCrea
6.2. The Looping Effects of Human Kinds – Ian Hacking
6.3. The Odd Couple: The Compatibility of Social Construction and Evolutionary Psychology – Ronald Mallon and Stephen Stitch
Topic 7: Human Genetic Diversity
7.1. The Apportionment of Human Diversity – Richard Lewontin
7.2. Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin’s Fallacy – A. W. F. Edwards
7.3. Genetic Structure of Human Populations – N. A. Rosenberg
Topic 8: Races
8.1. A Social Constructionist Analysis of Race – Sally A. Haslanger
8.2. Individual Ancestry Inference and the Reification of Race as a Biological Phenomenon – Dan Bolnick
Topic 9: Sex
9.1. Excerpt from The Evolution of Human Sexuality – Donald Symons
9.2. Excerpt from Human Nature and the Limits of Science – John Dupré
9.3. Same-Sex Sexual Behavior and Evolution – Nathan W. Bailey and Marlene Zuk
Section 3: Human Nature and Normality
Topic 10: Health
10.1. Health as a Theoretical Concept – Christopher Boorse
10.2. Against Normal Functions – Ron Admunson
10.3. Mental Health and Disorder – R. C. Cooper
Topic 11: Politics and the Concept of Human Nature
11.1. A Fatal Attraction to Normalizing – Anita Silvers
11.2. “Human Nature” and its Role in Feminist Theory – L. M. Antony
11.3. Is Human Nature Important for Feminism? – Nancy Holstrom
Topic 12: Transhumanism
12.1. Ageless Bodies, Happy Souls: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Perfection – Leon Kass
12.2. In Defense of Posthuman Dignity – Nick Bostrom
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