Being Human: Bridging the Gap between the Sciences of Body and Mind (Am Zügel der Evolution) - Erstausgabe

EAN (ISBN-13): 9783861355847
ISBN (ISBN-10): 3861355841
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
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ISBN/EAN: 9783861355847

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Autor des Buches: hohl, medicus, sonia kleindorfer
Titel des Buches: was uns verbindet, der leib, being, mind the gap london, body and mind, the human body

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Autor/in: Gerhard Medicus
Titel: Am Zügel der Evolution; Being Human; Was uns Menschen verbindet. Humanethologische Angebote zur Verständigung zwischen Leib- und Seelenwissenschaften - Bridging the Gap between the Sciences of Body and Mind
Verlag: VWB-Verlag
212 Seiten
Berlin; DE
Gedruckt / Hergestellt in Deutschland.
Übersetzer/in: Norbert Hohl; Sonia Kleindorfer (Deutsch)
Gewicht: 0,590 kg
Sprache: Englisch
30,00 € (DE)
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BB; B304; GB; Hardcover, Softcover / Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften; Entwicklung; Menschliche Evolution; Humanethologie

List of Contents: * Wulf Schiefenhövel: Foreword for the English Edition * Preface * Acknowledgements *** PART I: Contributions to the epistemology of interdisciplinarity in the human sciences * 1. Interdisciplinary theoretical foundation of the natural sciences * 1.1 The central questions * 1.1.1 The question of causation * 1.1.2 The question of ontogeny * 1.1.3 The question of adaptive value * 1.1.4 The question of phylogeny * 1.2 The reference levels * 1.3 Chapter appendix: evolutionary psychology, evolutionary medicine * 2. Contributions of the humanities to the interdisciplinary dialogue in human sciences * 2.1 The body-mind problem: how it came to the separation of academic faculties * 2.2 Approaches bridging the division between the humanities and the natural sciences * 2.2.1 Popper’s postulate of falsifiability * 2.2.2 The structure of the real world according to Nicolai Hartmann * 2.2.3 Levels of evidence and demands for certainty * 2.2.4 David Hume and Norbert Bischof * 2.3 A plea in favour of orientational knowledge * 2.4 Chapter appendix: forms of knowledge, Semmelweis Effect *** PART II: Behavioural phylogeny in relation to the higher-level systematics of vertebrates * 3. On the phylogeny of human cognition * 3.1 Evolutionary stages of human cognition * 3.1.1 Phylogenetic and ontogenetic knowledge gain * 3.1.2 The evolution of cognitive capacities * 3.1.3 Communal coexistence and culture; cultural-theoretical considerations * 3.1.4 Overlaps between concepts of psychotherapy and ethology * 3.2 Chapter appendix: further aspects of hominisation * 4. From animal brood care to human social behaviour * 4.1 From brood care to cooperativeness and its limits * 4.2 Grieving, greeting and leave-taking * 4.3 From brood care to sexual behaviour * 4.3.1 Incest avoidance mechanisms * 4.3.2 Gender differences * 5. The apple from the tree of knowledge and the expulsion from paradise: on the evolution of morality * 5.1 Questions about human nature * 5.2 Evolutionary origins of humanity * 5.2.1 Social attractiveness * 5.2.2 Self-exploration and empathy * 5.2.3 Time horizon and emphronesis as prerequisites for the ability to feel shame * 5.2.4 Reflection and moral responsibility in adult humans * 5.2.5 Summary: scope and limitations of cultural freedom * 5.2.6 Concluding remarks * 6. On the ethology of resource appropriation and ownership * 6.1 The resource is appropriated by the strongest * 6.2 The resource is appropriated by the higher-ranking individual and/or the first to arrive * 6.3 Give and take * 6.4 The right to possession is respected even in the absence of the owner * 6.5 Chapter appendix: rank order and hierarchy * 7. The natural difference: on the biopsychology of gender differences * 7.1 General remarks and biological foundations * 7.1.1 Benefits of sexual reproduction * 7.1.2 Basic principles and causes for the origin of sexual dimorphism * 7.2 Sexual reproduction in nonhuman and human primates * 7.2.1 Excursus: communication in primates * 7.2.2 The sociology of primate mating systems * 7.2.3 The “principle of antithesis” in male-female differences * 7.2.4 Human sexual behaviour * 7.3 Variants of sexual behaviour * 7.4 Prospects * 8. Does the psychomotor development of children follow the biogenetic rule? * 8.1 On the history of the biogenetic rule * 8.2 Developmental physiological basis for recapitulation: metaphenes and interphenes * 8.3 The significance of the biogenetic rule for biological research * 8.4 The biogenetic rule and the ontogenetic development of behaviour * 8.4.1 Interphenes commonly lack external adaptive value * 8.4.2 Anatomical recapitulation with simultaneous functional “recapitulation" * 8.4.3 The role of primordial behaviour in ontogeny * 8.4.4 Morphogenesis and psychogenesis as distinct ontogenetic steps * 8.4.5 No behavioural interphenes in nervous system ontogeny * 8.5 Summary *** PART III: Contributions to the ethology of specific behavioural areas and capacities, with an emphasis on universal traits in higher mammals and unique traits in apes and humans * 9. On the evolutionary epistemological critique of constructivism * 9.1 Information and “learning” genes * 9.2 How do information, knowledge, (sense) organs and behaviour relate to the environment? * 9.3 Convergence and consistency as evidences of truthlikeness * 9.4 Expectation and experience * 9.5 Constructions or reconstructions? * 9.6 The three worlds according to Popper (1972) * 9.7 Insights and methods of constructivism * 9.7.1 Transparency * 9.7.2 Pluralism versus monism * 9.8 Conclusive remarks * 10. Human infant attachment and its significance during life * 10.1 Preliminary remarks * 10.2 Ethological aspects of attachment * 10.2.1 Human parents and their attachment to their children * 10.2.2 Comparative cross-cultural observations on adult-child interaction * 10.2.3 Allomothers and sibling-assisted brood care * 10.2.4 Human children and their attachment to their parents * 10.2.5 Programmed developmental stages of attachment and detachment * 10.2.6 The Zurich model: the relationship between attachment, curiosity and independence * 10.3 Incest inhibition * 10.4 The susceptibility to attachment disorder * 10.5 Concluding remarks * 11. Aggression from a behavioural biological and cross-cultural perspective * 11.1 Foundations * 11.1.1 Misnamed forms of “aggression” * 11.2 Conditions that lead to aggression * 11.2.1 The three categories of genetic distance * 11.2.2 Aggression across species and cultures * 11.3 Conditions that help reduce or inhibit aggression * 11.4 Summary * 12. The biopsychology of the Zôon politikón * 12.1 Foundations and preconditions for political behaviour * 12.2 Constraints within small groups * 12.3 Constraints within large societies * 12.3.1 Affect-logic * 12.4 Chapter-appendix: comparison of sociopolitical attitudes *** List of the author’s publications used in this book *** Bibliography *** Subject Index *** Author Index