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  • The biological mind : a philosophical introduction
    Garson, Justin
    For some, biology explains all there is to know about the mind. Yet many big questions remain: is the mind shaped by genes or the environment? If mental traits are the result of adaptations built up ... over thousands of years, as evolutionary psychologists claim, how can such claims be tested? If the mind is a machine, as biologists argue, how does it allow for something as complex as human consciousness? Revised and updated to take account of new developments in the field, The Biological Mind: A Philosophical Introduction, Second Edition explores these questions and more, using the philosophy of biology to introduce and assess the nature of the mind. Drawing on the four key themes of evolutionary biology; molecular biology and genetics; neuroscience; and biomedicine and psychiatry, Justin Garson addresses the following key topics: moral psychology, altruism, and levels of selection; evolutionary psychology and the adaptationism debate; genes, environment, and the nature–nurture debate; natural selection and mental representation; [and] psychiatric classification and the maladapted mind. This second edition includes three new chapters on race, sex, and human nature as well as new sections on group and kin selection, psychological altruism, and cultural evolution. Including chapter summaries, annotated further readings, a glossary of terms, and examples and case studies throughout, this is an indispensable introduction for those teaching philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of biology. It will also be an excellent resource for those in related fields such as biology.
    Vrsta gradiva - knjiga ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Izdaja - Second ed.
    Založništvo in izdelava - London [i. e. ] Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022
    Jezik - angleški
    ISBN - 978-0-367-46632-9; 978-0-367-46631-2
    COBISS.SI-ID - 154020099

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Filozofski inštitut
 0000209521
IN: 8158105
Filozofski inštitut
 209521
IN: 8158105
prosto - na dom, čas izposoje: 21 dni
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