On Our Minds
Subtitle: How Evolutionary Psychology Is Reshaping the Nature versus Nurture Debate
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 2, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780801873874
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Psychology; Life Sciences - Evolution - Human; Physiological Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Reference; Evolutionary psychology
First sentence: Since turning thirty, I have been a committed "conservative" in at least one respect.
Description: "In On Our Minds, Eric M. Gander examines all sides of the public debate between evolutionary psychologists and their critics. Paying particularly close attention to the popular science writings of Steven Pinker, Edward O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, and Stephen Jay Gould, Gander traces the history of the controversy, succinctly summarizes the claims and theories of the evolutionary psychologists, dissects the various arguments deployed by each side, and considers in detail the far-reaching ramifications - social, cultural, and political - of this debate. Gander's lucid and highly readable account concludes that evolutionary psychology now holds the potential to answer our oldest and most profound moral and philosophical questions, fundamentally changing our self-perception as a species."--Jacket.