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Author: Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 388
Weight: 0.429kg
ISBN: 9789004544512
ISBN 10: 9004544518
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 26 June 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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"""We need Darwin now more than ever. This book shows that understanding evolution has existential import for humans now, and in a way that wasn’t even true in Darwin’s time. It’s full of surprises; you’ll find the sections on the alpha male archetype in 21st century politics funny, on target, and absolutely terrifying."" - Robert P. Crease, Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Columnist, Physics World, Winner, 2021 William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize, for ""describing key humanities concepts for scientists, and explaining the significance of key scientific ideas for humanists."" “Combining her profound knowledge and superb scholarship within and across the fields of philosophy and science, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone shows how awareness of our connection to others and the natural world around us–and how we understand these relations--will define how we negotiate the 21st century. By this she means how we educate our children, what it will take to instill and restore wonder and curiosity in the face of an increasingly mechanical world view. Hers is the voice of a wisdom grounded in our evolutionary origins, where the truths of experience constitute a proper aim of science and the usual duality of subject and object disappears. For those who inquire how we become 'mindful bodies' and all that that entails, this book is for you. Delightfully written and down to earth, it provides us a wise, yet practical way to grasp our true nature."" - J. A. Scott Kelso, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University; Intelligent Systems Research Centre, Ulster University, Derry ~ Londonderry, N. Ireland; Pierre de Fermat Laureate 2008."
We need Darwin now more than ever. This book shows that understanding evolution has existential import for humans now, and in a way that wasn't even true in Darwin's time. It's full of surprises; you'll find the sections on the alpha male archetype in 21st century politics funny, on target, and absolutely terrifying. - Robert P. Crease, Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Columnist, Physics World, Winner, 2021 William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize, for describing key humanities concepts for scientists, and explaining the significance of key scientific ideas for humanists. Combining her profound knowledge and superb scholarship within and across the fields of philosophy and science, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone shows how awareness of our connection to others and the natural world around us-and how we understand these relations--will define how we negotiate the 21st century. By this she means how we educate our children, what it will take to instill and restore wonder and curiosity in the face of an increasingly mechanical world view. Hers is the voice of a wisdom grounded in our evolutionary origins, where the truths of experience constitute a proper aim of science and the usual duality of subject and object disappears. For those who inquire how we become 'mindful bodies' and all that that entails, this book is for you. Delightfully written and down to earth, it provides us a wise, yet practical way to grasp our true nature. - J. A. Scott Kelso, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University; Intelligent Systems Research Centre, Ulster University, Derry ~ Londonderry, N. Ireland; Pierre de Fermat Laureate 2008.
We need Darwin now more than ever. This book shows that understanding evolution has existential import for humans now, and in a way that wasn't even true in Darwin's time. It's full of surprises; you'll find the sections on the alpha male archetype in 21st century politics funny, on target, and absolutely terrifying. - Robert P. Crease, Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Columnist, Physics World, Winner, 2021 William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize, for describing key humanities concepts for scientists, and explaining the significance of key scientific ideas for humanists. Combining her profound knowledge and superb scholarship within and across the fields of philosophy and science, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone shows how awareness of our connection to others and the natural world around us-and how we understand these relations--will define how we negotiate the 21st century. By this she means how we educate our children, what it will take to instill and restore wonder and curiosity in the face of an increasingly mechanical world view. Hers is the voice of a wisdom grounded in our evolutionary origins, where the truths of experience constitute a proper aim of science and the usual duality of subject and object disappears. For those who inquire how we become 'mindful bodies' and all that that entails, this book is for you. Delightfully written and down to earth, it provides us a wise, yet practical way to grasp our true nature. - J. A. Scott Kelso, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University; Intelligent Systems Research Centre, Ulster University, Derry ~ Londonderry, N. Ireland.
Author Information
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is an interdisciplinary scholar (BA: French/Comparative Literature, University of California; MA: Dance; PhD: Philosophy/Dance; 2nd PhD: incomplete [ABD] Evolutionary Biology, University of Wisconsin). She has over ninety articles in humanities, science, and art journals, as well as ten published books. She has given keynote addresses and guest lectures in Europe and in North and South America, and was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship for her research on xenophobia in the inaugural year of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, UK, the theme of which was 'The Legacy of Charles Darwin'.
