George Ellis (University of Cape Town), Mark Solms (University of Cape Town)

Beyond Evolutionary Psychology

How and Why Neuropsychological Modules Arise

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The nature/nurture question is an age-old problem. By taking into account brain physiology on the one hand, and the developmental processes that shape the brain on the other, this book presents a compelling unifying theory of which brain modules can be innate and which cannot.

Produktdetails

• Culture and Psychology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781107661417
• ISBN-10: 1107661412
• Artikelnr.: 48063784

Autorenporträt

George Ellis is Emeritus Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Cape Town, and visiting Professor in the Physics Department, University of Oxford. He co-authored, with Stephen Hawking, The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time (Cambridge, 1975). He has been awarded the Star of South Africa Medal by President Nelson Mandela, the Order of Mapungubwe by President Thabo Mbeki, and the Templeton Prize. He has many awards including six honorary doctorates, the latest being awarded by the University of Paris. His latest book is How Can Physics Underlie the Mind? Top-Down Causation in the Human Context (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The mind and the brain; 3. Hierarchy, modularity and development; 4. Claims of innate modularity; 5. The mind and emotions; 6. A realistic view of evolution, development and emotions; 7. Conclusion; Appendix. Language infinities; References; Index.

Rezensionen

'The work is a tour de force in the area of culture, evolution, psychology and emotion, and in short is brilliant. Ellis and Solms have synthesized and integrated large, disparate areas of scholarship and have developed an insightful and amazingly thought-provoking theoretical framework that is entirely new. I especially liked the focus on language, as tackling the potential innateness versus learned aspect of it is persuasive and strategically sound.' David Matsumoto, San Francisco State University