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Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 8 facts
referenceLinnda R. Caporael and Marilynn B. Brewer published 'The Quest for Human Nature: Social and Scientific Issues in Evolutionary Psychology' in the Journal of Social Issues in 1991, which addresses the social and scientific debates surrounding the field of evolutionary psychology.
referenceEdward O. Wilson published 'On Human Nature' in 1978.
referenceJanet C. Richards authored 'Human nature after Darwin: a philosophical introduction', published by Routledge in 2000.
referenceSteven Pinker authored 'The blank slate: the modern denial of human nature' in 2002, which addresses the concept of human nature.
referenceEvolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker delivered a TED talk regarding his book, "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature."
referenceDavid J. Buller and Valerie Gray Hardcastle authored the chapter 'Modularity' in the book 'Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology And The Persistent Quest For Human Nature', published by MIT Press in 2005.
referenceMartie G. Haselton and Geoffrey F. Miller published 'Women's fertility across the cycle increases the short-term attractiveness of creative intelligence' in the journal Human Nature in 2006.
claimThe Human Behavior and Evolution Society is an international organization dedicated to using evolutionary theory to study human nature.
Evolutionary Psychology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 5 facts
claimEvolutionary psychology has the potential to discover a human nature that is everywhere the same.
claimEvolutionary Psychology in the narrow sense is a circumscribed adaptationist research program that regards the human mind as an integrated collection of cognitive mechanisms that guide behavior and form universal human nature.
claimThe psychological mechanisms discovered by functional analysis constitute the psychological universals that define human nature.
claimEvolutionary Psychology posits that the human mind is a complex set of domain-specific cognitive modules that define universal human nature and override individual, cultural, or societal differences.
perspectiveDavid Buller argues in 'Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature' that the theoretical and methodological doctrines of Evolutionary Psychology are problematic and that the field has not produced any solid empirical results.
Mind and Consciousness - St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology saet.ac.uk Jun 20, 2024 2 facts
quotePaul along with most Jews and other early Christians habitually thought of man as a duality of two parts, corporeal and incorporeal, meant to function in unity but distinct and capable of separation [...] There is no single formula by which Paul expresses his dualist view of human nature, but terms such as ‘inner man’, ‘spirit’, ‘mind’, and ‘heart’ all refer to the incorporeal aspect or part, and terms such as ‘outer man’, ‘flesh’, ‘body’, ‘members’, and so forth all refer to the corporeal aspect or part.
claimContemporary concepts of mind and consciousness are central to reflections on religious and secular views of reality, religious pluralism, religious experience, theories about human nature and animals, the philosophy of science, the theory of knowledge, value theory, and morality.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 1 fact
referenceMarshall, I. and Zohar, D. published the book 'The Quantum Self: Human Nature and Consciousness Defined by the New Physics' in 1990 through Morrow.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 1 fact
claimRobert Pasnau provided a philosophical study of Thomas Aquinas's views on human nature in his 2002 book 'Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa Theologaie 1a 75–89'.
Epistemology of Testimony | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
quoteThomas Reid wrote in 1764: “[I]f credulity were the effect of reasoning and experience, it must grow up and gather strength, in the same proportion as reason and experience do. But, if it is the gift of Nature, it will be strongest in childhood, and limited and restrained by experience; and the most superficial view of human nature shews, that the last is really the case, and not the first. … [N]ature intends that our belief should be guided by the authority and reason of others before it can be guided by our own reason.”
Self, selfhood and understanding - infed.org infed.org 1 fact
referenceEdward E. Sampson's 'Celebrating the Other' provides a dialogic account of human nature and explores various debates surrounding notions of the self.
Behavioral Economics: Everyday Biases That Shape Money Choices verifiedinvesting.com 1 fact
perspectiveBehavioral biases are not inherently positive or negative, but are part of human nature that can either serve or hinder an individual depending on the context.