The Importance of Evolution to Understandings of Human Nature

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54451-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 388, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Cognitive Science

This interdisciplinary book focuses on Charles Darwin’s extensively detailed observations of all forms of animate life across the global world—humans included. These existential realities of Nature are not commonly recognized in today’s world, yet they are all of sizable import in impacting both flora and fauna, thus in human understandings of the nature of the world and the nature of all forms of animate life. Darwin’s descriptively anchored observations furthermore tie in directly with Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological analyses of experience. However different their inquiries and wonder at the world and at human experience, their analyses show how descriptive foundations and a concern with origins are integral to both, and how methodology and a living dynamics are central to a recognition of the complementarity of biological-neurological sciences and phenomenology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Naturphilosophie, Philosophie und Evolution
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is an interdisciplinary scholar (BA: French/Comparative Literature, University of California; MA: Dance; PhD: Philosophy/Dance; 2nd PhD: incomplete [ABD] Evolutionary Biology, University of Wisconsin). She has over ninety articles in humanities, science, and art journals, as well as ten published books. She has given keynote addresses and guest lectures in Europe and in North and South America, and was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship for her research on xenophobia in the inaugural year of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, UK, the theme of which was 'The Legacy of Charles Darwin'.