The Ontogeny Of Information

Author : Susan Oyama
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 298 pages
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Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822380665

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The Ontogeny of Information by Susan Oyama Pdf

The Ontogeny of Information is a critical intervention into the ongoing and perpetually troubling nature-nurture debates surrounding human development. Originally published in 1985, this was a foundational text in what is now the substantial field of developmental systems theory. In this revised edition Susan Oyama argues compellingly that nature and nurture are not alternative influences on human development but, rather, developmental products and the developmental processes that produce them. Information, says Oyama, is thought to reside in molecules, cells, tissues, and the environment. When something wondrous occurs in the world, we tend to question whether the information guiding the transformation was pre-encoded in the organism or installed through experience or instruction. Oyama looks beyond this either-or question to focus on the history of such developments. She shows that what developmental “information” does depends on what is already in place and what alternatives are available. She terms this process “constructive interactionism,” whereby each combination of genes and environmental influences simultaneously interacts to produce a unique result. Ontogeny, then, is the result of dynamic and complex interactions in multileveled developmental systems. The Ontogeny of Information challenges specialists in the fields of developmental biology, philosophy of biology, psychology, and sociology, and even nonspecialists, to reexamine the existing nature-nurture dichotomy as it relates to the history and formation of organisms.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:743399403

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The Ontogeny of Information by Anonim Pdf

DIVIn this work, the author attempts to complicate certain conventional dichotomies (particularly the nature/nurture split) that she belives impede scientific inquiry and thought about individual development, and to untangle the often subtle assumptions embe/div

Author : Susan Oyama
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0822324725

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Evolution's Eye by Susan Oyama Pdf

DIVCollection of essays by Susan Oyama looking at the implications of developmental systems approach for evolutionary theory, specifically for nature-nurture oppositions, ideas of essential human nature, and the limits of human agency and possibility./div

Author : Michael Tomasello
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674980853

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Becoming Human by Michael Tomasello Pdf

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial...Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general chronology in which these traits appear can at least—and at last—be identified.” —Wall Street Journal “Theoretically daring and experimentally ingenious, Becoming Human squarely tackles the abiding question of what makes us human.” —Susan Gelman, University of Michigan Virtually all theories of how humans have become such a distinctive species focus on evolution. Becoming Human proposes a complementary theory of human uniqueness, focused on development. Building on the seminal ideas of Vygotsky, it explains how those things that make us most human are constructed during the first years of a child’s life. In this groundbreaking work, Michael Tomasello draws from three decades of experimental research with chimpanzees, bonobos, and children to propose a new framework for psychological growth between birth and seven years of age. He identifies eight pathways that differentiate humans from their primate relatives: social cognition, communication, cultural learning, cooperative thinking, collaboration, prosociality, social norms, and moral identity. In each of these, great apes possess rudimentary abilities, but the maturation of humans’ evolved capacities for shared intentionality transform these abilities into uniquely human cognition and sociality.

Author : Susan Oyama,Russell D. Gray,Paul E. Griffiths
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262650630

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Cycles of Contingency by Susan Oyama,Russell D. Gray,Paul E. Griffiths Pdf

The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental resources, no one of which controls the process. These factors include DNA, cellular and organismic structure, and social and ecological interactions. DST has excited interest from a wide range of researchers, from molecular biologists to anthropologists, because of its ability to integrate evolutionary theory and other disciplines without falling into traditional oppositions.The book provides historical background to DST, recent theoretical findings on the mechanisms of heredity, applications of the DST framework to behavioral development, implications of DST for the philosophy of biology, and critical reactions to DST.

Author : Stanley N. Salthe
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262193353

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Development and Evolution by Stanley N. Salthe Pdf

Development and Evolution surveys and illuminates the key themes of rapidly changing fields and areas of controversy that the redefining the theory and philosophy of biology. It continues Stanley Salthe's investigation of evolutionary theory, begun in his influential book Evolving Hierarchical Systems, while negating the implicit philosophical mechanisms of much of that work. Here Salthe attempts to reinitiate a theory of biology from the perspective of development rather than from that of evolution, recognizing the applicability of general systems thinking to biological and social phenomena and pointing towards a non-Darwinian and even a postmodern biology.

Author : Arthur Frederick William Hughes
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015013586949

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Aspects of Neural Ontogeny by Arthur Frederick William Hughes Pdf

Author : Susan Oyama
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780822380658

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Evolution's Eye by Susan Oyama Pdf

In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture debate, arguing that behavior cannot be reduced to distinct biological or environmental causes. In Evolution’s Eye Oyama elaborates on her pioneering work on developmental systems by spelling out that work’s implications for the fields of evolutionary theory, developmental and social psychology, feminism, and epistemology. Her approach profoundly alters our understanding of the biological processes of development and evolution and the interrelationships between them. While acknowledging that, in an uncertain world, it is easy to “blame it on the genes,” Oyama claims that the renewed trend toward genetic determinism colors the way we think about everything from human evolution to sexual orientation and personal responsibility. She presents instead a view that focuses on how a wide variety of developmental factors interact in the multileveled developmental systems that give rise to organisms. Shifting attention away from genes and the environment as causes for behavior, she convincingly shows the benefits that come from thinking about life processes in terms of developmental systems that produce, sustain, and change living beings over both developmental and evolutionary time. Providing a genuine alternative to genetic and environmental determinism, as well as to unsuccessful compromises with which others have tried to replace them, Evolution’s Eye will fascinate students and scholars who work in the fields of evolution, psychology, human biology, and philosophy of science. Feminists and others who seek a more complex view of human nature will find her work especially congenial.

Author : Michael L. McKinney,K.J. McNamara
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475707731

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Heterochrony by Michael L. McKinney,K.J. McNamara Pdf

The authors outline evolutionary thought from pre-Darwinian biology to current research on the subject. They broadly label the factors of evolution as intrinsic and extrinsic, with Darwin favoring the latter by emphasizing the process of natural selection and later followers of Darwin carrying t

Author : F. LeRon Shults,Nancey C. Murphy,Robert John Russell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047440239

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Philosophy, Science and Divine Action by F. LeRon Shults,Nancey C. Murphy,Robert John Russell Pdf

This book introduces and showcases contributions from leading international scholars on the topic of "divine action" in the world, with special attention on the way in which philosophical categories and developments play a role in the dialogue among scientists and theologians.

Author : J. Arvid Ågren
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192607027

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The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution by J. Arvid Ågren Pdf

'Arvid Ågren has undertaken the most meticulously thorough reading of the relevant literature that I have ever encountered, deploying an intelligent understanding to pull it into a coherent story. As if that wasn't enough, he gets it right.' (Richard Dawkins) To many evolutionary biologists, the central challenge of their discipline is to explain adaptation, the appearance of design in the living world. With the theory of evolution by natural selection, Charles Darwin elegantly showed how a purely mechanistic process can achieve this striking feature of nature. Since then, the way many biologists have thought about evolution and natural selection is as a theory about individual organisms. Over a century later, a subtle but radical shift in perspective emerged with the gene's-eye view of evolution in which natural selection was conceptualized as a struggle between genes for replication and transmission to the next generation. This viewpoint culminated with the publication of The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (Oxford University Press, 1976) and is now commonly referred to as selfish gene thinking. The gene's-eye view has subsequently played a central role in evolutionary biology, although it continues to attract controversy. The central aim of this accessible book is to show how the gene's-eye view differs from the traditional organismal account of evolution, trace its historical origins, clarify typical misunderstandings and, by using examples from contemporary experimental work, show why so many evolutionary biologists still consider it an indispensable heuristic. The book concludes by discussing how selfish gene thinking fits into ongoing debates in evolutionary biology, and what they tell us about the future of the gene's-eye view of evolution. The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution is suitable for graduate-level students taking courses in evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, and evolutionary genetics, as well as professional researchers in these fields. It will also appeal to a broader, interdisciplinary audience from the social sciences and humanities including philosophers and historians of science.

Author : Henry Plotkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780198568285

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Necessary Knowledge by Henry Plotkin Pdf

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Author : Charles Crawford,Dennis Krebs
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135704148

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Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology by Charles Crawford,Dennis Krebs Pdf

Evolutionary psychology is concerned with the adaptive problems early humans faced in ancestral human environments, the nature of the psychological mechanisms natural selection shaped to deal with those ancient problems, and the ability of the resulting evolved psychological mechanisms to deal with the problems people face in the modern world. Evolutionary psychology is currently advancing our understanding of altruism, moral behavior, family violence, sexual aggression, warfare, aesthetics, the nature of language, and gender differences in mate choice and perception. It is helping us understand the relationships between cognitive science, developmental psychology, behavior genetics, personality, and social psychology. Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology provides an up-to-date review of the ideas, issues, and applications of contemporary evolutionary psychology. It is suitable for senior undergraduates, first year graduate students, or professionals who wish to become conversant with the major issues currently shaping the emergence of this dynamic new field. It will be interesting to psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, economists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, and anyone interested in using new developments in the theory of evolution to gain new insights into human behavior.

Author : Mark H. Johnson,Yuko Munakata,Rick O. Gilmore
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780470752029

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Brain Development and Cognition by Mark H. Johnson,Yuko Munakata,Rick O. Gilmore Pdf

The first edition of this successful reader brought together key readings in the area of developmental cognitive neuroscience for students. Now updated in order to keep up with this fast moving field, the volume includes new readings illustrating recent developments along with updated versions of previous contributions.

Author : A. Toscano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230514195

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The Theatre of Production by A. Toscano Pdf

This book provides a historical analysis of the philosophical problem of individuation, and a new trajectory in its treatment. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze, C.S. Peirce and Gilbert Simondon, the problem of individuation is taken into the realm of modernity. This is a vibrant contribution to contemporary debates in European philosophy.