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Author : John Hollings
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The State of Human Nature Delineated written by John Hollings and published by . This book was released on 1734 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Wollaston
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Religion of Nature Delineated written by William Wollaston and published by . This book was released on 1725 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101200324
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Blank Slate written by Steven Pinker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. "Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Updated with a new afterword One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.
Author : Alva Noë
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429945257
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Strange Tools written by Alva Noë and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves In his new book, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers new answers to such questions. He also shows why recent efforts to frame questions about art in terms of neuroscience and evolutionary biology alone have been and will continue to be unsuccessful.
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595586571
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book The Chomsky-Foucault Debate written by Noam Chomsky and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this historic 1971 debate, two of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers discuss whether there is such a thing as innate human nature. In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a time of great political and social instability, two of the world’s leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by Dutch philosopher Fons Elders to debate an age-old question: Is there such a thing as “innate” human nature independent of our experiences and external influences? The resulting dialogue is one of the most original, provocative, and spontaneous exchanges to have occurred between contemporary philosophers. Above all, their discussion serves as a concise introduction to their two opposing theories. What begins as a philosophical argument rooted in linguistics (Chomsky) and the theory of knowledge (Foucault), soon evolves into a broader discussion encompassing a wide range of topics, from science, history, and behaviorism to creativity, freedom, and the struggle for justice in the realm of politics. In addition to the debate itself, this volume features a newly written introduction by noted Foucault scholar John Rajchman and includes substantial additional texts by Chomsky and Foucault. “[Chomsky is] arguably the most important intellectual alive.” —The New York Times “Foucault . . . leaves no reader untouched or unchanged.” —Edward Said
Author : Patricia S. Churchland
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691180970
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Braintrust written by Patricia S. Churchland and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative new account of how morality evolved What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain. She describes the "neurobiological platform of bonding" that, modified by evolutionary pressures and cultural values, has led to human styles of moral behavior. The result is a provocative genealogy of morals that asks us to reevaluate the priority given to religion, absolute rules, and pure reason in accounting for the basis of morality. Moral values, Churchland argues, are rooted in a behavior common to all mammals—the caring for offspring. The evolved structure, processes, and chemistry of the brain incline humans to strive not only for self-preservation but for the well-being of allied selves—first offspring, then mates, kin, and so on, in wider and wider "caring" circles. Separation and exclusion cause pain, and the company of loved ones causes pleasure; responding to feelings of social pain and pleasure, brains adjust their circuitry to local customs. In this way, caring is apportioned, conscience molded, and moral intuitions instilled. A key part of the story is oxytocin, an ancient body-and-brain molecule that, by decreasing the stress response, allows humans to develop the trust in one another necessary for the development of close-knit ties, social institutions, and morality. A major new account of what really makes us moral, Braintrust challenges us to reconsider the origins of some of our most cherished values.
Author : James Stephen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: Being a delineation of the state in point of practice written by James Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erika Lorraine Milam
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210438
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Creatures of Cain written by Erika Lorraine Milam and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murder After World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new urgency. Creatures of Cain charts the rise and precipitous fall in Cold War America of a theory that attributed man’s evolutionary success to his unique capacity for murder. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials and in-depth interviews, Erika Lorraine Milam reveals how the scientists who advanced this “killer ape” theory capitalized on an expanding postwar market in intellectual paperbacks and widespread faith in the power of science to solve humanity’s problems, even to answer the most fundamental questions of human identity. The killer ape theory spread quickly from colloquial science publications to late-night television, classrooms, political debates, and Hollywood films. Behind the scenes, however, scientists were sharply divided, their disagreements centering squarely on questions of race and gender. Then, in the 1970s, the theory unraveled altogether when primatologists discovered that chimpanzees also kill members of their own species. While the discovery brought an end to definitions of human exceptionalism delineated by violence, Milam shows how some evolutionists began to argue for a shared chimpanzee-human history of aggression even as other scientists discredited such theories as sloppy popularizations. A wide-ranging account of a compelling episode in American science, Creatures of Cain argues that the legacy of the killer ape persists today in the conviction that science can resolve the essential dilemmas of human nature.
Author : James Stephen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: Being a delineation of the state in point of law written by James Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hume
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (739 download)
Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John TODD (Bookseller, of York, the Elder and SOTHERAN (Henry) of York.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of several Libraries and parcels of books ... to be sold, ... December 11, 1770, etc written by John TODD (Bookseller, of York, the Elder and SOTHERAN (Henry) of York.) and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maximillian E. Novak
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ISBN 13 : 9780199261543
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Daniel Defoe written by Maximillian E. Novak and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Defoe led an exciting and indeed precarious life. A provocative pamphleteer and journalist, a spy and double agent, a revolutionary and a dreamer, he was variously hunted by mobs with murderous intent and treated as a celebrity by the most powerful leaders of the country. Imprisoned many times, pilloried and reviled by his enemies, through it all he managed to produce some of the most significant literature of the eighteenth century. Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions is the first biography to view Defoe's complex life through the angle of vision that is most important to us as modern readers--his career as a writer. Maximillian Novak, a leading authority on Defoe, ranges from the writer's earliest collection of brief stories, which he presented to his future wife under the sobriquet Bellmour, to his Compleat English Gentleman, left unpublished at his death. Novak illuminates such works as Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, novels that changed the course of fiction in their time and have remained towering classics to this day. And he reveals a writer who was a superb observer of his times--an age of dramatic historical, political, and social change. Indeed, through his many pamphlets, newspapers, books of travel, and works of fiction, Defoe commented on everything from birth control to the price of coal, and from flying machines to the dangers of the plague. Beautifully and authoritatively written, this is the first serious, full-scale biography of Defoe to appear in a decade. It gives us, for the first time, a full understanding of the thought and personal experience that lie behind some of the great works of English literature.
Author : David Hume
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enquiry concerning the principles of morals / Hume, David, 1711-1776.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Illustrated London News written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Greenwood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue, of the Most Remarkable Collection of Prints Ever Offered to the Public; Being Matchless Both for Number, Variety, Beauty, and Scarcity written by John Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199263841
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature written by David Hume and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of Hume's Treatise, one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. This second volume contains their historical account of how the Treatise was written and published; an explanation of how they have established the text; an extensive set of annotations which illuminate Hume's texts; and a comprehensive bibliography and index.
Author : William Creech
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books, Ancient and Modern written by William Creech and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
