Jeremy Carpendale, Charlie Lewis

What Makes Us Human

How Minds Develop through Social Interactions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is thinking and how does it develop? Are we born knowing the difference between right and wrong, and how does this change as we age? Can genes determine how we think and who we are? In this fascinating volume expert developmental psychologists Jeremy Carpendale and Charlie Lewis answer these questions and more.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780367537937
• ISBN-10: 0367537931
• Artikelnr.: 60354224

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Carpendale is Professor of Developmental Psychology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, and the father of two. Charlie Lewis is Professor of Family and Developmental Psychology at Lancaster University, UK, and the father of two.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface, Acknowledgements 1. The Problem: What it is to be Human? 2. The
Baby in the Social Cradle 3. Wittgenstein's Baby: How do Words Work? 4. A
Brief History of Babies: How do Babies get the Point? 5. Thinking about the
Social World: How do Children Understand Others? 6. Becoming a Moral Being:
Early Development, Emotions and Neuroscience 7. Knowing Right from Wrong:
Or, How does Morality Develop? 8. From Molecules to Minds: Can Genes
Determine Thinking? 9. The Myth of the Desert Island Baby: Is the Mind a
Machine? 10. Social Relations and Reason: What are the Implications of
Self-Awareness?