Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 2011
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Princeton. 2011. January 2011. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691146744. 5 halftones. 5 line illustrations. 5 tables. 274 pages. hardcover. keywords: Popular Science Evolutionary Psychology. DESCRIPTION - THE EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN INCONSISTENCY. We're all hypocrites. Why? Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind. Robert Kurzban shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the mind's design. The mind consists of many specialized units designed by the process of evolution by natural selection. While these modules sometimes work together seamlessly, they don't always, resulting in impossibly contradictory beliefs, vacillations between patience and impulsiveness, violations of our supposed moral principals, and overinflated views of ourselves. This modular, evolutionary psychological view of the mind undermines deeply held intuitions that we all hold about ourselves, as well as a range of scientific theories that require a self' with consistent beliefs and preferences. Modularity suggests that there is no I.' Instead, each of us is a contentious we' - a collection of discrete but interacting systems whose constant conflicts shape our interactions with one another and our experience of the world. In clear language, full of wit and rich in examples, Kurzban explains the roots and implications of our inconsistent minds, and why it is perfectly natural to believe that everyone else is a hypocrite. inventory #37835.…
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- Title
- Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
- Author
- Kurzban, Robert
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Very Good in Dustjacket
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 0691146748
- ISBN 13
- 9780691146744
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- First Edition.
The evolutionary psychology behind human inconsistency
We're all hypocrites. Why? Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind.
Robert Kurzban shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the mind's design. The human mind consists of many specialized units designed by the process of evolution by natural selection. While these modules sometimes work together seamlessly, they don't always, resulting in impossibly contradictory beliefs, vacillations between patience and impulsiveness, violations of our supposed moral principles, and overinflated views of ourselves.
This modular, evolutionary psychological view of the mind undermines deeply held intuitions about ourselves, as well as a range of scientific theories that require a "self" with consistent beliefs and preferences. Modularity suggests that there is no "I." Instead, each of us is a contentious "we"--a collection of discrete but interacting systems whose constant conflicts shape our interactions with one another and our experience of the world.
In clear language, full of wit and rich in examples, Kurzban explains the roots and implications of our inconsistent minds, and why it is perfectly natural to believe that everyone else is a hypocrite.
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