Beyond human nature : how culture and experience shape the human mind / Jesse J. Prinz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prinz, Jesse J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mind and body.

Thought and thinking.

Physical Description:

xii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W.W. Norton, 2012.

Summary:

A timely and uniquely compelling plea for the importance of nurture in the ongoing nature-nurture debate.

Contents:

The nature-nurture debate

Where do traits come from? Putting the genome back in the bottle ; Get smart

Where does knowledge come from? What babies know ; Sensible ideas

Where does language come from? The gift of the gab ; Words of worlds

Where does thinking come from? The Tao of thought ; Gender and geometry

Where do feelings come from? Fear and loathing in Micronesia ; Gladness and madness

Where do values come from? Coping with cannibalism ; In bed with Darwin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-387) and index.

ISBN:

9780393061758

0393061752

OCLC:

601108239