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title: "Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience Shape the Human Mind"
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# Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience Shape the Human Mind

**Brand:** jesse j. prinz
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by A***R on December 4, 2016*

Fabulous - a very interesting, accessible and pertinent read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nature v. Nurture
*by P***W on July 16, 2014*

For the most part persuasive, although at times difficult to follow. The first chapter on why overemphasizing the role of genes could lead us astray as a society is important - it details the history of Social Darwinism and the assumptions in the past (some not so distant) as to the role of inheritance v. culture. The discussion of the intelligence of men vs. women with regard to the sciences, the subject of controversy in the 1990s absorbing.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Even if you don't agree, you should know the arguments (and refute them if you can)
*by M***K on May 8, 2014*

The book is about two scientific positions that exist since the times of the old Greeks, often reduced to the ‘nature-nurture’ issue. Emotions, language, traits and values – are they part of human nature, genetically determined and hard-wired in our brains, or are they the product of culture? Of course, neither nature nor culture can exist completely without the other, but how great a part each plays has been and is still the point of many academic debates.Prinz states early on, that he is on the side of culture, so the reader knows what to expect. If you have been a naturist so far, see if he can convince you. If you are a nurturist, see if his arguments are similar to yours. And if you never thought about the issue, then prepare for a roller coaster ride of ideas and reasoning! Prinz structures each chapter around a question (e. g. “Where does thinking come from?”), and answers it first by summarising the arguments of the naturist side. Then he takes them apart, step-by-step. He points at flaws in research methods, logical problems, over-interpretation of results and offers alternative explanations. To underpin his arguments, he quotes about 250 scientific studies from psychology, philosophy, sociology and anthropology, but he gathers these in form of end notes at the end of the book, which makes the text easier to read than a traditional psychological text (which quotes the names of the researcher in parentheses in the text). Sometimes he also speculates, but when he does he tells you, and as the speculations agree with the quoted research results, he thus shows that there are alternative ways to interpret the data, so more and cleverer research is needed.Reading original research is often hard for an outsider. Each discipline has more or less developed their own lingo (one reason why they don’t collaborate interdisciplinary), but Prince has succeeded well in translating the different dialects into normal English. His choice of examples and titles is often witty. And no matter what side one is on: there is some gymnastics for the brain in following his dialectic argumentation, and more than once did I have to revise my own convictions several times within minutes. Utterly exciting.The only critics I have is that Prinz obviously fell for one of Chomsky’s ideas, otherwise I cannot understand why he does not cite Skinner’s Verbal Behavior in the language chapter. And I also think adding some dynamic system thinking, which has appears also in developmental psychology could improve the argument.So I highly recommend this book for everybody who likes a bit of an intellectual challenge.

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