Die Entstehung des Geistes: ist Michael Tomasellos "Naturgeschichte des menschlichen Denkens" eine Lösung des Leib-Seele-Problems?
Evolutionary Anthropology, as it is paradigmatically executed by Michael Tomasello, tells a ›natural history‹ of specific human abilities. Its aim is to better understand these abilities on the basis of their genealogy. Theologically as well as philosophically, this rather new branch of anthropologi...
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| Language: | German |
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2019
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Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
Year: 2019, Volume: 141, Issue: 4, Pages: 413-433 |
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| Summary: | Evolutionary Anthropology, as it is paradigmatically executed by Michael Tomasello, tells a ›natural history‹ of specific human abilities. Its aim is to better understand these abilities on the basis of their genealogy. Theologically as well as philosophically, this rather new branch of anthropological research has not yet been widely received. This paper reconstructs the basic idea of Tomasello’s evolutionary anthropology. It then defends the position that evolutionary anthropology offers a new and fresh perspective on the mind-body problem. This perspective may not solve the problem in the end, but it may overcome the unproductive stalemate between dualism and monism. This huge potential of evolutionary anthropology is countered, however, by its central weakness: It does not consider the human ability to interpret one’s existence in a meaningful way (or at least takes a solely functionalistic perspective on this ability). |
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