"Encountering the World reorients modern psychology by finding a viable middle ground between the study of nerve cells and cultural analysis. The emerging field of ecological psychology focuses on the "human niche" and our uniquely evolved modes of action and interaction. Reject…
Humain, posthumain: la technique et la vie
"Are humans rational? Various experiments performed over the last several decades have been interpreted as showing that humans are irrational, we make significant and consistent errors in logical reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, similarity judgements, and risk-assessment, to …
Marxism and human nature
by Sayers, Sean
fromRoutledge studies in social and political thought
A l'aube de l'an 2000, les hommes veulent-ils toujours ressembler à Dieu où n'aspirent-ils qu'à ressembler aux machines qu'ils ont inventées? L'intelligence artificielle serait-elle la prochaine étape de l'évolution? D'homo sapiens, allons-nous devenir techno-sapiens, c'est-à-di…
"By showing how and why human nature is what it is, evolutionary theory can help us see better what we need to do to improve the human condition. Following evolutionary theory to its logical conclusion, this book uses life history theory and attachment theory to construct a mode…