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Biologising the Social Sciences: Challenging Darwinian and Neuroscience Explanations book cover

1st Edition

Biologising the Social Sciences Challenging Darwinian and Neuroscience Explanations

Edited By David Canter, David Turner Copyright 2014
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge
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You can hardly open a paper or read an academic journal without some attempt to explain an aspect of human behaviour or experience by reference to neuroscience, biological or evolutionary processes. This ‘biologising’ has had rather a free ride until now, being generally accepted by the public at large. However, there is a growing number of scholars who are challenging the assumption that we are... Read more

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

Biography

David Canter is Professor of Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, UK.

David Turner is Professor Emeritus at the University of Glamorgan, UK.

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