Overview

In its modern usage, the term consilience was first established by Edward O. Wilson in his 1998 book, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. Wilson's original thesis contained two parts: that nature forms a unitary order of causal forces, hierarchically organized, and that scientific knowledge, because it delineates nature, also forms a unitary order, promising consensus among diverse fields.Bringing together cutting-edge scientists and scholars across this range, Darwin's Bridge gives an expert account of consilience and makes it possible to see how far we have come toward unifying knowledge about the human species, what major issues are still in contention, and which areas of research are likely to produce further progress. Readers will be delighted as they, along with the work's contributing authors, explore the deeper meaning of consilience and consider the harmony of human evolution, human nature, social dynamics, art, and narrative.

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Author:   Joseph Carroll ,  Dan P. McAdams ,  Edward O. Wilson
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.616kg
ISBN:  

9780190231217

ISBN 10:   0190231211
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   15 August 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Alice Dreger Introduction: Joseph Carroll Part I. Transforming Our Vision of the Human Story Chapter 1. Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence Part II. The Evolution of Human Sociality Chapter 2. Christopher Boehm, Bullies: Redefining the Human Free-Rider Problem Chapter 3. Herbert Gintis, The Structure and Evolution of Morality: Public and Private Persona Chapter 4. Henry Harpending & Nathan Harris, Human Kinship as a Green Beard Chapter 5. Michael Rose, Darwinian Evolution of Free Will and Spiritual Experience Part III. Ancient Markings Chapter 6. John Hawks, Neandertal Humanities Chapter 7. Ellen Dissanayake, Mark-Making as a Human Behavior Part IV. Integrative Psychology Chapter 8. Barbara Oakley, Consilience through the Integration of Engineering and Social Science Chapter 9. Dan P. McAdams, From Actor to Agent to Author: Human Evolution and the Development of Personality Part V. A Biocultural Perspective on Literature Chapter 10. Catherine Salmon, What Do Romance Novels, Pro-Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common? Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling Chapter 11. Mathias Clasen, Terrifying Monsters, Malevolent Ghosts, and Evolved Danger-Management Architecture: A Consilient Approach to Horror Fiction Chapter 12. Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, John Johnson, & Daniel Kruger, Agonistic Structure in Canonical British Novels of the Nineteenth Century Chapter 13. Brian Boyd, Experiments with Experience: Consilient Multilevel Explanations of Art and Literature Part VI. A Challenge Chapter 14. Massimo Pigliucci, The Limits of Consilience and the Problem of Scientism Afterwords David Sloan Wilson Jonathan Gottschall

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Darwin's Bridge is a vibrant collection of essays on controversial topics from the origins of human intelligence and the sociobiology of Shakespearean sonnets to whether it makes sense to unite the sciences and humanities. This mind-expanding book does more than any other to answer Wilson's seductive and important call for an evolutionary psychology of the humanities. --Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Darwin's Bridge is a vibrant collection of essays on controversial topics from the origins of human intelligence and the sociobiology of Shakespearean sonnets to whether it makes sense to unite the sciences and humanities. This mind-expanding book does more than any other to answer Wilson's seductive and important call for an evolutionary psychology of the humanities. --Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human Darwin's Bridge is a vibrant collection of essays on controversial topics from the origins of human intelligence and the sociobiology of Shakespearean sonnets to whether it makes sense to unite the sciences and humanities. This mind-expanding book does more than any other to answer Wilson's seductive and important call for an evolutionary psychology of the humanities. --Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Author Information

Joseph Carroll is Curators' Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His books include Evolution and Literary Theory, Literary Darwinism, Reading Human Nature, and (co-authored) Graphing Jane Austen. He produced an edition of Darwin's Origin of Species. He is the leading figure in the movement known as literary Darwinism, that is, the effort to integrate evolutionary social science and literary scholarship. Dan P. McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Psychology Department at Northwestern University. His research focuses on personality development across the human life course. Most recently, he is the author of The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By and George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream: A Psychological Portrait. Edward O. Wilson is Curator in Entomology and University Research Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. He has received more than 100 awards for his research and writing, including the U.S. National Medal of Science, the Crafoord Prize and two Pulitzer Prizes in non-fiction. He is considered one of the world's foremost biologists and naturalists today.

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