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Human By Nature - Between Biology and the Social Sciences (Paperback)
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Human By Nature - Between Biology and the Social Sciences (Paperback)
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Representing a wide range of disciplines -- biology, sociology,
anthropology, economics, human ethology, psychology, primatology,
history, and philosophy of science -- the contributors to this book
recently spent a complete academic year at the Center for
Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) discussing a plethora of new
insights in reference to human cultural evolution. These scholars
acted as a living experiment of "interdisciplinarity in vivo." The
assumption of this experiment was that the scholars -- while
working and residing at the ZiF -- would be united intellectually
as well as socially, a connection that might eventually enhance
future interdisciplinary communication even after the research
group had dispersed. An important consensus emerged: The issue of
human culture poses a challenge to the division of the world into
the realms of the "natural" and the "cultural" and hence, to the
disciplinary division of scientific labor. The appropriate place
for the study of human culture, in this group's view, is located
between biology and the social sciences. Explicitly avoiding
biological and sociological reductionisms, the group adopted a
pluralistic perspective -- "integrative pluralism" -- that took
into account both today's highly specialized and effective
(sub-)disciplinary research and the possibility of integrating the
respective findings on a case-by-case basis. Each sub-group
discovered its own way of interdisciplinary collaboration and
submitted a contribution to the present volume reflecting one of
several types of fruitful cooperation, such as a fully integrated
chapter, a multidisciplinary overview, or a discussion between
different approaches. A promising first step on the long road to an
interdisciplinarily informed understanding of human culture, this
book will be of interest to social scientists and biologists alike.
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