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Homo Prospectus.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (401 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199374489
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Homo ProspectusDDC classification:
  • 153
LOC classification:
  • BF378.P76 -- .H666 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Homo Prospectus -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 Homo Prospectus -- ONE Introduction -- TWO Intuitive Guidance: Emotion, Information, and Experience -- THREE Deliberative Guidance: Intuitive Guidance in the Counterfactual Mode -- FOUR Imaginative Guidance: A Mind Forever Wandering -- FIVE Collective Prospection: The Social Construction of the Future -- Part 2 Prospection and Life's Enduring Questions -- SIX Pragmatic Prospection -- SEVEN Free Will and the Construction of Options -- EIGHT Emotions: How the Future Feels (and Could Feel) -- NINE Morality and Prospection -- TEN Prospection Gone Awry: Depression -- ELEVEN Creativity and Aging: What We Can Make With What We Have Left -- Afterword -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Summary: In this remarkable convergence of research in philosophy, statistics, decision theory, psychology, and neuroscience, Homo Prospectus shows how human prospection fundamentally reshapes our understanding of key cognitive processes, thereby improving individual and social functioning. It aims to galvanize interest in this new science from scholars in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, as well as an educated public curious about what makes humanity what it is.
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Cover -- Homo Prospectus -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 Homo Prospectus -- ONE Introduction -- TWO Intuitive Guidance: Emotion, Information, and Experience -- THREE Deliberative Guidance: Intuitive Guidance in the Counterfactual Mode -- FOUR Imaginative Guidance: A Mind Forever Wandering -- FIVE Collective Prospection: The Social Construction of the Future -- Part 2 Prospection and Life's Enduring Questions -- SIX Pragmatic Prospection -- SEVEN Free Will and the Construction of Options -- EIGHT Emotions: How the Future Feels (and Could Feel) -- NINE Morality and Prospection -- TEN Prospection Gone Awry: Depression -- ELEVEN Creativity and Aging: What We Can Make With What We Have Left -- Afterword -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

In this remarkable convergence of research in philosophy, statistics, decision theory, psychology, and neuroscience, Homo Prospectus shows how human prospection fundamentally reshapes our understanding of key cognitive processes, thereby improving individual and social functioning. It aims to galvanize interest in this new science from scholars in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, as well as an educated public curious about what makes humanity what it is.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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