Homo Prospectus
Oxford University Press USA (2016)
Authors |
|
Abstract |
Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially well is to prospect the future. We are homo prospectus. In this book, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sripada argue it is anticipating and evaluating future possibilities for the guidance of thought and action that is the cornerstone of human success. Much of the history of psychology has been dominated by a framework in which people's behavior is driven by past history and present circumstances. Homo Prospectus reassesses this idea, pushing focus to the future front and center and opening discussion of a new field of Psychology and Neuroscience.The authors delve into four modes in which prospection operates: the implicit mind, deliberate thought, mind-wandering, and collective imagination. They then explore prospection's role in some of life's most enduring questions: Why do people think about the future? Do we have free will? What is the nature of intuition, and how might it function in ethics? How does emotion function in human psychology? Is there a common causal process in different psychopathologies? Does our creativity change with age?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.
|
Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) |
Categories | (categorize this paper) |
Buy this book |
Find it on Amazon.com
|
ISBN(s) | 9780199374472 0199374473 |
Options |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Download options
References found in this work BETA
No references found.
Citations of this work BETA
The Limits of Appealing to Disgust.Joshua May - 2018 - In Nina Strohminger & Victor Kumar (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Disgust. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 151-170.
The Functions of Prospection – Variations in Health and Disease.Adam Bulley & Muireann Irish - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
Similar books and articles
Il normativo nell’homo œconomicus, il normativo dell ’homo œconomicus.Paolo Silvestri - 2008 - In Enzo Di Nuoscio & Paolo Heritier (eds.), Le culture di Babele. Saggi di antropologia filosofico-giuridica. Medusa. pp. 173-192.
Homo Faber, Homo Sapiens, or Homo Politicus? Protagoras and the Myth of Prometheus.Alfredo Ferrarin - 2000 - Review of Metaphysics 54 (2):289-319.
Die perfekte tochter der mutter natur: Zur" homo homo homo"-formel im liber de sapiente Des carolus bovillus.Wiebke Schrader - 2002 - Perspektiven der Philosophie 28 (1):127-168.
Was Homo Erectus an Ecological Dominant Species?P. Slurink - 1995 - In John R. F. Bower & S. Sartono (eds.), Evolution and Ecology of Homo erectus. Pithecanthropus Centennial Foundation. pp. 169-176.
The Secondary School Prospectus and the Challenge of Special Educational Needs.Ian C. Copeland - 1994 - Educational Studies 20 (2):237-250.
Martin Carrier.Die Rettung der Phänomene - 2005 - In Gereon Wolters & Martin Carrier (eds.), Homo Sapiens Und Homo Faber. De Gruyter.
Aristoteles' Erg»«-Argument in der Nikomachischen Ethik.Peter Stemmer - 2005 - In Gereon Wolters & Martin Carrier (eds.), Homo Sapiens Und Homo Faber. De Gruyter. pp. 65.
Begründungsrationalität und Logik.Peter Schroeder-Heister - 2005 - In Gereon Wolters & Martin Carrier (eds.), Homo Sapiens Und Homo Faber. De Gruyter. pp. 285--296.
Lehren was man selber nicht weiß.Peter McLaughlin - 2005 - In Gereon Wolters & Martin Carrier (eds.), Homo Sapiens Und Homo Faber. De Gruyter. pp. 157.
Homo Oeconomicus is Also Homo Cogitans Homo Cogitans is Also Homo Oeconomicus.Paul Bourgine - 1989 - Theory and Decision 27 (1-2):1-6.
Nietzsche's Use of Amor Fati_ in _Ecce Homo.Brian Domino - 2012 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 43 (2):283-303.
What More Is There to Say? Revisiting Agamben's Depiction of Homo Sacer.Peter Gratton - 2011 - The European Legacy 16 (5):599 - 613.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2016-06-22
Total views
2 ( #1,371,900 of 2,410,273 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
1 ( #540,207 of 2,410,273 )
2016-06-22
Total views
2 ( #1,371,900 of 2,410,273 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
1 ( #540,207 of 2,410,273 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads