The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition

by Stephen T. Asma and Rami Gabriel

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Tracing the leading role of emotions in the evolution of the mind, a philosopher and a psychologist pair up to reveal how thought and culture owe less to our faculty for reason than to our capacity to feel.

Many accounts of the human mind concentrate on the brain's computational power. Yet, in evolutionary terms, rational cognition emerged only the day before yesterday. For nearly 200 million years before humans developed a capacity...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674980557

ISBN13:9780674980556

Release Date:April 2019

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:448 Pages

Weight:0.05 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.4" x 9.2"

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Philosophy Psychology Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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