On Human Nature: Anthropological, Biological, and Philosophical Foundations

by Grunwald, Armin; Gutmann, Mathias; Neumann-Held, Eva M.

• ISBN13: 9783540429050
• ISBN10: 3540429050
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Table of Contents

I The Nature of Human Nature: Ethical and General Issues
On Human Nature	3	(12)
Gernot Bohme
Personalistic Organicism and the Human Social Animal	15	(8)
Frederick Ferre
Genetics, Embodiment and Identity	23	(30)
Christoph Rehmann-Sutter
II Biology in Discourse: Biotheoretical Considerations on Human Nature
The Biological Fundamentals of Human Cultural Developments and their Unique Functional Integration	53	(20)
Hans-Rainer Duncker
Three Seconds: A Temporal Platform for Conscious Activities	73	(8)
Ernst Poppel
Gestalt Recognition and Internal Representation -- A Report from the Philosophical Laboratory	81	(14)
Olaf Breidbach
Between Natural Disposition and Cultural Masterment of Life -- The Cognitive Sciences and Concept of Man in Conflicting Conceptions of Scienes	95	(16)
Peter Janich
Genotype and Phenotype: Genetic and Epigenetic Aspects	111	(10)
Ulrich Wolf
Genetic Determinism: The Battle between Scientific Data and Social Image in Contemporary Developmental Biology	121	(20)
Scott Gilbert
Can we find Human Nature in the Human Genome?	141	(22)
Eva M. Neumann-Held
The Nurturing of Natures	163	(10)
Susan Oyama
III The Other Side of the Mirror: Methodological Reconsideration of Human Nature
The Burdon of Proof -- On the Impossibility of Technology Assessment for the Human Genome Project	173	(6)
Michael Drieschner
Philosophy and the Concept of Technology -- On the Anthropological Significance of Technology	179	(16)
Armin Grunwald
Human Cultures' Natures -- Critical Considerations and Some Perspectives of Culturalist Anthropology	195
Mathias Gutmann