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portada Beyond Nature and Nurture: Perspectives on Human Multidimensionality
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Physical Book
Publisher
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Language
English
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9783031877186

Beyond Nature and Nurture: Perspectives on Human Multidimensionality

Pérez-Jara Javier,Ongay Íñigo (Author) · Springer · Hardcover

Beyond Nature and Nurture: Perspectives on Human Multidimensionality - Pérez-Jara Javier,Ongay Íñigo

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Synopsis "Beyond Nature and Nurture: Perspectives on Human Multidimensionality"

This book gathers several of the world's leading scholars in the nature vs. nurture debate, offering a timely reconsideration of the dynamic interactions between physical, chemical, biological, social, and cultural factors that shape human multidimensionality. Emphasizing this multidimensionality, this edited volume seeks to bridge the divide between biology and social theory--two research communities that have too often overlooked each other. These disciplines, despite being central to understanding human nature, have long operated in isolation. 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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