Verbs, bones, and brains : interdisciplinary perspectives on human nature / edited by Agustin Fuentes and Aku Visala.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fuentes, Agustin, editor.

Visala, Aku, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2017.

Summary:

Verbs, Bones, and Brains engages in an interdisciplinary conversation about God, creation, evolution, and human nature.

Contents:

Cover

VERBS, BONES, AND BRAINS

Title

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CONTENTS

Introduction: The Many Faces of Human Nature

CHAPTER 1 Off Human Nature

RESPONSE I On Your Marks ... Get Set, We're Off Human Nature

RESPONSE II Rethinking Human Nature: Comments on Jonathan Marks's Anti-Essentialism

RESPONSE III Off Human Nature and On Human Culture: The Importance of the Concept of Culture to Science and Society

CHAPTER 2 "To Human" Is a Verb

RESPONSE I Free and Easy Wandering: Humans, Humane Education, and Designing in Harmony with the Nature of the Way

RESPONSE II On Human Natures: Anthropological and Jewish Musings

RESPONSE III The Humanifying Adventure: A Response to Tim Ingold

RESPONSE IV The Ontogenesis of Human Moral Becoming

CHAPTER 3 Recognizing the Complexity of Personhood: Complex Emergent Developmental Linguistic Relational Neurophysiologicalism

RESPONSE I "Self-Organizing Personhood" and Many Loose Ends

RESPONSE II A Last Hurrah for Dualism?

RESPONSE III Why the Foundational Question about Human Nature Is Open and Empirical

CHAPTER 4 Human Origins and the Emergence of a Distinctively Human Imagination: Theology and the Archaeology of Personhood

RESPONSE I Constructing the Face, Creating the Collective: Neolithic Mediation of Personhood

RESPONSE II Imago Dei and the Glabrous Ape

CHAPTER 5 What Is Human Nature For?

RESPONSE I The Difficulties of Forsaking Normativity

RESPONSE II Some Remarks on Human Nature and Naturalism

Epilogues

Putting Evolutionary Theory to Work in Investigating Human Nature(s)

Moving Us Forward?

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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ISBN:

9780268101176

0268101175

9780268101169

0268101167

OCLC:

959610344