Conversations on Human Nature

Recent empirical and philosophical research into the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens the origins of the mind/brain and the development of human culture has sparked heated debates about what it means to be human and how knowledge about humans from the sciences and humanities should be understood. Conversations on Human Nature featuring 20 interviews with leading scholars in biology psychology anthropology philosophy and theology brings these debates to life for teachers students and general readers. The book-outlines the basic scientific philosophical and theological issues involved in understanding human nature;-organizes material from the various disciplines under four broad headings: (1) evolution brains and human nature; (2) biocultural human nature; (3) persons minds and human nature (4) religion theology and human nature; -concludes with Fuentes and Visala's discussion of what researchers into human nature agree on what they disagree on and what we need to learn to resolve those differences.