Biologising the Social Sciences - Challenging Darwinian and Neuroscience Explanations

Informationen zum Autor David Canter is Professor of Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, UK. David Turner is Professor Emeritus at the University of Glamorgan, UK. Klappentext There is a growing number of scholars who are challenging the assumption that we are little more than our bodies and animal origins. This volume brings together a review of these emerging critiques expressed by an international range of senior academics from across the social sciences. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science. Zusammenfassung There is a growing number of scholars who are challenging the assumption that we are little more than our bodies and animal origins. This volume brings together a review of these emerging critiques expressed by an international range of senior academics from across the social sciences. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Raymond Tallis 1. Challenging neuroscience and evolutionary explanations of social and psychological processes David Canter 2. The evolution of consciousness Max Velmans 3. The biological myth of human evolution Jonathan Marks 4. Defining addiction, with more humanity? Woody Caan 5. Education and neuroscience David A. Turner 6. The mismeasurement of youth: why adolescent brain science is bad science Judith Bessant and Rob Watts 7. Disordered selves Richard S. Hallam 8. Biologising reading problems: the specific case of dyslexia João Lopes 9. Postscript: The ethics of Darwinism David Turner and David Canter

Product details

• Authors: David (University of Huddersfield Canter, David Turner Canter
• Assisted by: David Canter (Editor), David Turner (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2015
• EAN: 9781138922921
• ISBN: 978-1-138-92292-1
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Contemporary Issues in Social Science
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Neurosciences, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology