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Darwin's Bridge Uniting the Humanities and Sciences

Carroll, Joseph McAdams Dan P. Wilson Edward O.
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780190231217
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
635 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
384

Redaktør
Carroll, Joseph
McAdams Dan P.
Wilson Edward O.

Biografisk notat

Joseph Carroll is Curators' Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His books include Evolution and Literary Theory, Literary Darwinism, Reading Human Nature, and (co-authored) Graphing Jane Austen. He produced an edition of Darwin's Origin of Species. He is the leading figure in the movement known as "literary Darwinism," that is, the effort to integrate evolutionary social science and literary scholarship. Dan P. McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Psychology Department at Northwestern University. His research focuses on personality development across the human life course. Most recently, he is the author of The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By and George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream: A Psychological Portrait. Edward O. Wilson is Honorary Curator in Entomology and University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University. He has received more than 100 awards for his research and writing, including the U.S. National Medal of Science, the Crafoord Prize and two Pulitzer Prizes in non-fiction. He is considered one of the world's foremost biologists and naturalists today.

Darwin's Bridge Uniting the Humanities and Sciences

Carroll, Joseph McAdams Dan P. Wilson Edward O.
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk
Carroll, Joseph McAdams Dan P. Wilson Edward O.
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"Darwin's Bridge is a vibrant collection of essays on controversial topics from the origins of human intelligence and the sociobiology of Shakespearean sonnets to whether it makes sense to unite the sciences and humanities. This mind-expanding book does more than any other to answer Wilson's seductive and important call for an evolutionary psychology of the humanities."
--Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences explores the meaning of consilience and considers the unity of human evolution, human nature, social dynamics, art, and narrative. The term "consilience" in its modern usage was first established by co-editor Edward O. Wilson in his 1998 book, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. Wilson's original thesis had two parts: that nature forms a unitary order of causal forces, hierarchically organized, and that scientific knowledge, because it delineates nature, also forms a unitary order, providing a unity of knowledge across a variety of fields. Bringing together cutting-edge scientists and scholars across this range, this volume gives an expert account of consilience and makes it possible to see how far we have come toward unifying knowledge about the human species, what major issues are still in contention, and which areas of research are most likely to produce further progress. The essays in Darwin's Bridge raise and give substantial answers to questions such as: What is the precise trajectory of human evolution? What were the main factors driving the evolution of the human brain and human motivational system? How closely does life among contemporary hunter-gatherers mirror conditions of ancestral life? In what ways have genes and culture co-evolved, reciprocally influencing one another? How does selection at the level of individuals interact with selection among groups? How complete and adequate are our current models of human nature? How well do these models integrate ideas about human universals, individual identity, and specific cultures? How well can we now delineate the causal chains leading from elementary principles of evolutionary biology to specifically human forms of social organization, individual identity, and imaginative culture? Are human proclivities to make and consume works of art by-products of adaptations, or are they themselves adaptations? Can evolutionary thinking guide us in giving close analytic and explanatory attention to individual works of art?
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Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences explores the meaning of consilience and considers the unity of human evolution, human nature, social dynamics, art, and narrative.
Foreword by Alice Dreger Introduction: Joseph Carroll Part I. Transforming Our Vision of the Human Story Chapter 1. Edward O. Wilson, "The Meaning of Human Existence" Part II. The Evolution of Human Sociality Chapter 2. Christopher Boehm, "Bullies: Redefining the Human Free-Rider Problem" Chapter 3. Herbert Gintis, "The Structure and Evolution of Morality: Public and Private Persona" Chapter 4. Henry Harpending & Nathan Harris, "Human Kinship as a Green Beard" Chapter 5. Michael Rose, "Darwinian Evolution of Free Will and Spiritual Experience" Part III. Ancient Markings Chapter 6. John Hawks, "Neandertal Humanities" Chapter 7. Ellen Dissanayake, "Mark-Making as a Human Behavior" Part IV. Integrative Psychology Chapter 8. Barbara Oakley, "Consilience through the Integration of Engineering and Social Science" Chapter 9. Dan P. McAdams, "From Actor to Agent to Author: Human Evolution and the Development of Personality" Part V. A Biocultural Perspective on Literature Chapter 10. Catherine Salmon, "What Do Romance Novels, Pro-Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common? Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling" Chapter 11. Mathias Clasen, "Terrifying Monsters, Malevolent Ghosts, and Evolved Danger-Management Architecture: A Consilient Approach to Horror Fiction" Chapter 12. Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, John Johnson, & Daniel Kruger, "Agonistic Structure in Canonical British Novels of the Nineteenth Century" Chapter 13. Brian Boyd, "Experiments with Experience: Consilient Multilevel Explanations of Art and Literature" Part VI. A Challenge Chapter 14. Massimo Pigliucci, "The Limits of Consilience and the Problem of Scientism" Afterwords David Sloan Wilson Jonathan Gottschall
Les mer
"Darwin's Bridge is a vibrant collection of essays on controversial topics from the origins of human intelligence and the sociobiology of Shakespearean sonnets to whether it makes sense to unite the sciences and humanities. This mind-expanding book does more than any other to answer Wilson's seductive and important call for an evolutionary psychology of the humanities." --Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Les mer
Selling point: Collects the most advanced work in the consilience movement Selling point: Demonstrates how far science has gone toward unifying knowledge about the human species, and what still needs to be done Selling point: Each chapter takes a different disciplinary approach to the question of "human nature" Selling point: Features expert perspectives from a variety of disciplines, including evolutionary biology, the humanities, social sciences, and more
Les mer
Joseph Carroll is Curators' Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His books include Evolution and Literary Theory, Literary Darwinism, Reading Human Nature, and (co-authored) Graphing Jane Austen. He produced an edition of Darwin's Origin of Species. He is the leading figure in the movement known as "literary Darwinism," that is, the effort to integrate evolutionary social science and literary scholarship. Dan P. McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Psychology Department at Northwestern University. His research focuses on personality development across the human life course. Most recently, he is the author of The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By and George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream: A Psychological Portrait. Edward O. Wilson is Curator in Entomology and University Research Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. He has received more than 100 awards for his research and writing, including the U.S. National Medal of Science, the Crafoord Prize and two Pulitzer Prizes in non-fiction. He is considered one of the world's foremost biologists and naturalists today.
Les mer
Selling point: Collects the most advanced work in the consilience movement Selling point: Demonstrates how far science has gone toward unifying knowledge about the human species, and what still needs to be done Selling point: Each chapter takes a different disciplinary approach to the question of "human nature" Selling point: Features expert perspectives from a variety of disciplines, including evolutionary biology, the humanities, social sciences, and more
Les mer

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"Darwin's Bridge is a vibrant collection of essays on controversial topics from the origins of human intelligence and the sociobiology of Shakespearean sonnets to whether it makes sense to unite the sciences and humanities. This mind-expanding book does more than any other to answer Wilson's seductive and important call for an evolutionary psychology of the humanities."
--Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences explores the meaning of consilience and considers the unity of human evolution, human nature, social dynamics, art, and narrative. The term "consilience" in its modern usage was first established by co-editor Edward O. Wilson in his 1998 book, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. Wilson's original thesis had two parts: that nature forms a unitary order of causal forces, hierarchically organized, and that scientific knowledge, because it delineates nature, also forms a unitary order, providing a unity of knowledge across a variety of fields. Bringing together cutting-edge scientists and scholars across this range, this volume gives an expert account of consilience and makes it possible to see how far we have come toward unifying knowledge about the human species, what major issues are still in contention, and which areas of research are most likely to produce further progress. The essays in Darwin's Bridge raise and give substantial answers to questions such as: What is the precise trajectory of human evolution? What were the main factors driving the evolution of the human brain and human motivational system? How closely does life among contemporary hunter-gatherers mirror conditions of ancestral life? In what ways have genes and culture co-evolved, reciprocally influencing one another? How does selection at the level of individuals interact with selection among groups? How complete and adequate are our current models of human nature? How well do these models integrate ideas about human universals, individual identity, and specific cultures? How well can we now delineate the causal chains leading from elementary principles of evolutionary biology to specifically human forms of social organization, individual identity, and imaginative culture? Are human proclivities to make and consume works of art by-products of adaptations, or are they themselves adaptations? Can evolutionary thinking guide us in giving close analytic and explanatory attention to individual works of art?
Les mer
Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences explores the meaning of consilience and considers the unity of human evolution, human nature, social dynamics, art, and narrative.
Foreword by Alice Dreger Introduction: Joseph Carroll Part I. Transforming Our Vision of the Human Story Chapter 1. Edward O. Wilson, "The Meaning of Human Existence" Part II. The Evolution of Human Sociality Chapter 2. Christopher Boehm, "Bullies: Redefining the Human Free-Rider Problem" Chapter 3. Herbert Gintis, "The Structure and Evolution of Morality: Public and Private Persona" Chapter 4. Henry Harpending & Nathan Harris, "Human Kinship as a Green Beard" Chapter 5. Michael Rose, "Darwinian Evolution of Free Will and Spiritual Experience" Part III. Ancient Markings Chapter 6. John Hawks, "Neandertal Humanities" Chapter 7. Ellen Dissanayake, "Mark-Making as a Human Behavior" Part IV. Integrative Psychology Chapter 8. Barbara Oakley, "Consilience through the Integration of Engineering and Social Science" Chapter 9. Dan P. McAdams, "From Actor to Agent to Author: Human Evolution and the Development of Personality" Part V. A Biocultural Perspective on Literature Chapter 10. Catherine Salmon, "What Do Romance Novels, Pro-Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common? Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling" Chapter 11. Mathias Clasen, "Terrifying Monsters, Malevolent Ghosts, and Evolved Danger-Management Architecture: A Consilient Approach to Horror Fiction" Chapter 12. Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, John Johnson, & Daniel Kruger, "Agonistic Structure in Canonical British Novels of the Nineteenth Century" Chapter 13. Brian Boyd, "Experiments with Experience: Consilient Multilevel Explanations of Art and Literature" Part VI. A Challenge Chapter 14. Massimo Pigliucci, "The Limits of Consilience and the Problem of Scientism" Afterwords David Sloan Wilson Jonathan Gottschall
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"Darwin's Bridge is a vibrant collection of essays on controversial topics from the origins of human intelligence and the sociobiology of Shakespearean sonnets to whether it makes sense to unite the sciences and humanities. This mind-expanding book does more than any other to answer Wilson's seductive and important call for an evolutionary psychology of the humanities." --Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Les mer
Selling point: Collects the most advanced work in the consilience movement Selling point: Demonstrates how far science has gone toward unifying knowledge about the human species, and what still needs to be done Selling point: Each chapter takes a different disciplinary approach to the question of "human nature" Selling point: Features expert perspectives from a variety of disciplines, including evolutionary biology, the humanities, social sciences, and more
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Joseph Carroll is Curators' Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His books include Evolution and Literary Theory, Literary Darwinism, Reading Human Nature, and (co-authored) Graphing Jane Austen. He produced an edition of Darwin's Origin of Species. He is the leading figure in the movement known as "literary Darwinism," that is, the effort to integrate evolutionary social science and literary scholarship. Dan P. McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Psychology Department at Northwestern University. His research focuses on personality development across the human life course. Most recently, he is the author of The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By and George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream: A Psychological Portrait. Edward O. Wilson is Curator in Entomology and University Research Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. He has received more than 100 awards for his research and writing, including the U.S. National Medal of Science, the Crafoord Prize and two Pulitzer Prizes in non-fiction. He is considered one of the world's foremost biologists and naturalists today.
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Selling point: Collects the most advanced work in the consilience movement Selling point: Demonstrates how far science has gone toward unifying knowledge about the human species, and what still needs to be done Selling point: Each chapter takes a different disciplinary approach to the question of "human nature" Selling point: Features expert perspectives from a variety of disciplines, including evolutionary biology, the humanities, social sciences, and more
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780190231217
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
635 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
384

Redaktør
Carroll, Joseph
McAdams Dan P.
Wilson Edward O.

Biografisk notat

Joseph Carroll is Curators' Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His books include Evolution and Literary Theory, Literary Darwinism, Reading Human Nature, and (co-authored) Graphing Jane Austen. He produced an edition of Darwin's Origin of Species. He is the leading figure in the movement known as "literary Darwinism," that is, the effort to integrate evolutionary social science and literary scholarship. Dan P. McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Psychology Department at Northwestern University. His research focuses on personality development across the human life course. Most recently, he is the author of The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By and George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream: A Psychological Portrait. Edward O. Wilson is Honorary Curator in Entomology and University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University. He has received more than 100 awards for his research and writing, including the U.S. National Medal of Science, the Crafoord Prize and two Pulitzer Prizes in non-fiction. He is considered one of the world's foremost biologists and naturalists today.

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