Three Prehistoric Inventions That Shaped Us
Both Darwin and neo-Darwinist theorists like Stephen Jay Gould were wrong to suppose that human nature and the human mind arose out of biological and historical sources alone. Three Prehistoric Inventions That Shaped Us argues that humans are very different from other animals in certain respects and, because of those respects, some of the most important sources of the particular sort of human nature we possess at the present moment, and of the special types of thinking in which we now are able to engage, were cultural ones. To be more specific, it shows that our present-day human nature was shaped in fundamental ways by at least three intelle…
Mehr
CHF 89.00
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
V104:
Folgt in ca. 10 Arbeitstagen
Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4331-1090-0
- EAN: 9781433110900
- Produktnummer: 19043572
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H22.5 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.5 cm 444 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 444
Über den Autor
David Martel Johnson received his A.B. from Kenyon College and his MA and his PhD from Yale University. He is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at York University, Toronto, where he has taught since 1965. He has edited (with Christina Erneling) The Future of the Cognitive Revolution (1997), (with Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou and Jagdish Hattiangadi) Aristotle and Contemporary Science, Volume II (Peter Lang, 2000); and (with Christina Erneling) The Mind as a Scientific Object (2005). He also is the author of How History Made the Mind (2003).
10 weitere Werke von David M. Johnson:
Bewertungen
Anmelden