Beyond Nature and Nurture
Perspectives on Human Multidimensionality
Springer
ISBN 978-3-031-87714-8
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2025
4 s/w-Abbildungen.
In englischer Sprache
Umfang: vi, 296 S.
Format (B x L): 15,5 x 23,5 cm
Verlag: Springer
ISBN: 978-3-031-87714-8
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Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Synthese Library
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While some animal species exhibit higher degrees of phenotypic plasticity in specific traits, humans stand out as the most plastic species in both their neurological and sociocultural systems. This plasticity leads the contributors of this book to move beyond both biological reductionism and the blank-slate hypothesis. While biology undoubtedly plays a role in shaping and stabilizing human social and cultural processes, it does so only within the framework of an inherently social environment—one shaped by historically contingent and socially constructed realities, such as values, codes, and cultural perceptions. More importantly, cultural structures and social interactions actively shape and transform certain biological features that were once considered immutable.
This book lays the groundwork for a productive dialogue among biologists, psychologists, social theorists, and philosophers. It also highlights some of the moral and political consequences of different perspectives within the nature vs. nurture debate. Through updated scientific and philosophical theorizing, the chapters in this book aim to overcome, once and for all, the simplistic yet persistent opposition between nature and nurture, offering a far more complex and dynamic—yet richer and epistemologically manageable—picture of the human being.
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The first book to cover the existing gap between the social sciences and the life sciences Bringing together two research communities which have often-times worked separately up to the present point Focusing on the logic governing the interplay between social, cultural, and biological factors in giving rise to complex systems
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