Emotional Mind - The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition

For 200 million years before humans developed a capacity to reason, the emotional centers of the brain were hard at work. Stephen Asma and Rami Gabriel help us understand the evolution of the mind by exploring this more primal capability that we share with other animals: the power to feel, which is the root of so much that makes us uniquely human.

About the author

Stephen T. Asma is the author of seven books, including Against Fairness; On Monsters; and Why We Need Religion. He is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia College Chicago and a founding Fellow of the college’s Research Group in Mind, Science and Culture.Rami Gabriel is the author of Why I Buy. He is Associate Professor of Psychology at Columbia College Chicago and a founding Fellow of the college’s Research Group in Mind, Science and Culture.

Summary

For 200 million years before humans developed a capacity to reason, the emotional centers of the brain were hard at work. Stephen Asma and Rami Gabriel help us understand the evolution of the mind by exploring this more primal capability that we share with other animals: the power to feel, which is the root of so much that makes us uniquely human.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen T Gabriel Asma, Stephen T. Asma, Stephen T. Gabriel Asma, Asma Stephen T., Rami Gabriel, Gabriel Rami
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780674980556
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98055-6
• No. of pages: 448
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