Human Nature and the Limits of Science

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John Dupr warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. Not just in the academic world but increasingly in everyday life, we find one set of experts seeking to explain the ends at which humans aim in terms of evolutionary theory, and another set of experts using economic models to give rules of how we act to achieve those ends. Dupr demonstrates that these theorists' explanations do not work, and furthermore that if taken seriously their theories tend to have dangerous social and political consequences. For these reasons, it is important to resist scientism--an exaggerated conception of what science can be expected to do for us.
Dupr restores sanity to the study of human nature by pointing the way to a proper understanding of humans in the societies that are our natural and necessary environments. Anyone interested in science and human nature will enjoy this book, unless they are its targets.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction

2: The Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology

3: The Evolutionary Psychology of Sex and Gender

4: The Charms and Consequences of Evolutionary Psychology

5: Kinds of People

6: Rational Choice Theory

7: Freedom of the Will

Bibliography, Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2003
Genre:	Importe , Religion & Theologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780199265503
ISBN-10:	019926550X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Dupre, John
Redaktion:	Dupre, John
Hersteller:	OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	John Dupre
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.09.2003
Gewicht:	0,306 kg