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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 212 pages, height x width: 246x174 mm, weight: 560 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 17-Mar-2022
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367466317
  • ISBN-13: 9780367466312
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 212 pages, height x width: 246x174 mm, weight: 560 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 17-Mar-2022
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
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  • ISBN-13: 9780367466312
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For some, biology explains all there is to know about the mind. Yet many big questions remain: Is the mind shaped by genes or the environment? If mental traits are the result of adaptations built up over thousands of years, as evolutionary psychologists claim, how can such claims be tested? If the mind is a machine, as biologists argue, how does it allow for something as complex as human thought?

Revised and updated to take account of new developments in the field, The Biological Mind: A Philosophical Introduction explores these questions and more, using the philosophy of biology to introduce and assess the nature of the mind. Justin Garson addresses the following key topics:











moral psychology, altruism, and levels of selection; evolutionary psychology and the adaptationism debate; genes, environment, and the naturenurture debate; natural selection and mental representation; psychiatric classification and the maladapted mind.

This second edition includes three new chapters on race, sex, and human nature as well as new sections on group and kin selection, psychological altruism, and cultural evolution. Including chapter summaries, annotated further readings, a glossary of terms, and examples and case studies throughout, this is an indispensable introduction for those teaching philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of biology. It will also be an excellent resource for those in related fields such as biology.

Recenzijas

Praise for the first edition:

'In this introductory volume, Garson offers a concise summary of several debates surrounding the interface between philosophy of biology and philosophy of mind. Written with admirable clarity and wit, this book would make a great secondary text in an upper-level philosophy of biology or philosophy of mind course. Summing Up: Recommended.' - Philip Jenkins, CHOICE

'In this accessible and interesting book, Justin Garson shows why philosophy matters to understanding the biology of the mind. Scientists have made great progress on questions about altruism, free will, consciousness, and the impact of genes on mental activity, but it takes a philosopher to provide the needed clarification, connection, and caution. Garson is that philosopher.' - Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA

'A wonderful, clear, lively, informative, and extremely accessible book. It is a terrific introduction to the philosophy of mind for those who want to explore the relation between our biological and psychological natures.' - Karen Neander, Duke University, USA

'A wide-ranging, well-informed, and highly readable introduction to current debates in the philosophy of mind and psychology, presented through the lens of philosophy of biology and general philosophy of science. Garson's biologically oriented approach to the issues makes so much sense, one can't help but wonder why it's not more standard in the literature; by rights, it should be.' - Philip Robbins, University of Missouri, USA

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(7)
Thinking biologically about the mind
1(1)
Function, structure, history
2(3)
Overview of the book
5(3)
1 What is natural selection?
8(15)
1.1 Life before Darwin
8(2)
1.2 Nature's selection
10(1)
1.3 Sexual selection
11(2)
1.4 Defining natural selection
13(3)
1.5 The convolutions of fitness*
16(7)
Chapter Summary and Suggested Readings
20(1)
References
21(2)
2 Do groups undergo selection?
23(14)
2.1 The problem of biological altruism
23(1)
2.2 Group selection
24(2)
2.3 Kin selection and the selfish gene
26(3)
2.4 Reciprocal altruism
29(1)
2.5 The equivalence thesis*
30(7)
Chapter Summary and Suggested Readings
33(2)
References
35(2)
3 Is natural selection the most powerful force of evolution?
37(13)
3.1 "What is it for?"
37(1)
3.2 Discovering adaptations
38(2)
3.3 The adaptationism debate
40(2)
3.4 Methodological and empirical adaptationism
42(2)
3.5 Why do women have orgasms?*
44(6)
Chapter Summary and Suggested Readings
47(1)
References
48(2)
4 Is evolution the foundation of psychology?
50(18)
4.1 Three psychological adaptations
50(2)
4.2 Evolution and the mind
52(3)
4.3 Evolutionary psychology
55(3)
4.4 Problems of evolutionary psychology
58(3)
4.5 Human behavioral ecology
61(7)
Chapter Summary and Suggested Readings
63(2)
References
65(3)
5 Do cultures evolve?
68(18)
5.1 What is culture?
68(3)
5.2 Enter the meme
71(2)
5.3 Memes and their critics
73(2)
5.4 Replicators and cultural attractors
75(3)
5.5 Is cultural evolution fruitful?
78(2)
5.6 The cultural inheritance of cultural learning
80(6)
Chapter Summary and Suggested Readings
82(1)
References
83(3)
6 Is anything innate?
86(18)
6.1 What is "innate?"
86(1)
6.2 Problems of defining innateness
87(3)
6.3 Gene and environment
90(1)
6.4 Genes as actual difference makers*
91(3)
6.5 Innateness and heritability*
94(3)
6.6 Should we eliminate "innate"?
97(7)
Chapter Summary and Suggested Readings
100(1)
References
101(3)
7 Are people altruistic?
104(15)
7.1 The problem of psychological altruism
104(2)
7.2 Egoism, altruism, hedonism
106(2)
7.3 The limits of social psychology
108(2)
7.4 An evolutionary argument for psychological altruism
110(4)
7.5 Critics of psychological altruism
114(5)
Chapter Summary and Suggested Readings
116(1)
References
117(2)
8 What are mental representations?
119(16)
8.1 The origin of meaning
119(3)
8.2 Three theories of meaning
122(2)
8.3 What are biological functions?
124(3)
8.4 Making and using representations*
127(2)
8.5 Problems for teleosemantics*
129(6)
Chapter Summary and Suggested Readings
131(2)
References
133(2)
9 What are mental disorders?
135(17)
9.1 Can minds be sick?
135(2)
9.2 Naturalism and normativism
137(2)
9.3 Mental disorders as harmful dysfunctions
139(3)
9.4 Are some mental disorders adaptations?
142(2)
9.5 Mental disorders and developmental mismatches
144(1)
9.6 The biostatistical theory of disorder
145(7)
Chapter Summary and Suggested Readings
148(1)
References
149(3)
10 Did racial classification evolve?
152(19)
10.1 What is "racial classification"?
152(3)
10.2 Anti-realism, social constructionism, biological naturalism
155(2)
10.3 Race and genetics
157(2)
10.4 Does genetics support biological realism?*
159(2)
10.5 Evolution and racial classification
161(4)
10.6 Is race a recent invention?
165(6)
Chapter Summary and Suggested Readings
166(3)
References
169(2)
11 Are there evolved psychological sex differences?
171(20)
11.1 Posing the question
171(2)
11.2 The essence of sex
173(2)
11.3 Is sex binary?
175(2)
11.4 Sexual selection and mating strategies
177(2)
11.5 Hasn't sexual selection been debunked?
179(3)
11.6 Sex and the brain*
182(9)
Chapter Summary and Suggested Readings
186(2)
References
188(3)
12 Does human nature exist?
191(12)
12.1 What is "human nature"?
191(2)
12.2 Against human nature
193(1)
12.3 An argument for species essentialism*
194(2)
12.4 Human nature after essentialism
196(7)
Chapter Summary and Suggested Readings
199(1)
References
200(3)
Glossary 203(6)
Index 209
Justin Garson is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA. He is the author of Madness: A Philosophical Exploration (2022), What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter (2019), and A Critical Overview of Biological Functions (2016). He is also co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Biodiversity (2016).