What Makes Us Human: How Minds Develop through Social Interactions

ISBN-13: 9780367537920 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 234 str.

Jeremy Carpendale; Charlie Lewis

Opis

What is thinking and how does it develop? Are we born knowing the difference between right and wrong, and how does this change as we age? Can genes determine how we think and who we are? In this fascinating volume expert developmental psychologists Jeremy Carpendale and Charlie Lewis answer these questions and more.

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Preface, Acknowledgements  1. The Problem: What it is to be Human? 2. The Baby in the Social Cradle  3. Wittgenstein’s Baby: How do Words Work?  4. A Brief History of Babies: How do Babies get the Point?  5. Thinking about the Social World: How do Children Understand Others?  6. Becoming a Moral Being: Early Development, Emotions and Neuroscience  7. Knowing Right from Wrong: Or, How does Morality Develop?  8. From Molecules to Minds: Can Genes Determine Thinking?  9. The Myth of the Desert Island Baby: Is the Mind a Machine?  10. Social Relations and Reason: What are the Implications of Self-Awareness?