Author: Martin E. P. Seligman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019937449X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
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 (memory) and present circumstances (perception and motivation). 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 (social) 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.
Homo Prospectus
Author: Martin E. P. Seligman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019937449X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
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 (memory) and present circumstances (perception and motivation). 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 (social) 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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019937449X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
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 (memory) and present circumstances (perception and motivation). 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 (social) 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.
The financing
Author: Hugh Ronald Conyngton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
General Prospectus
Conspectus methodicus et alphabeticus numerorum classificationis bibliographici auctoritate Instituti bibliographici internationalis bruxellensis ampliatus a Concilio bibliographico
Author: Concilium Bibliographicum
Publisher:
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Financing an Enterprise
Author: Francis Cooper
Publisher:
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1989: Fish and Wildlife Service
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Investor Protection
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Brokers
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Brokers
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Prospectus of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution. [A Volume Containing a Collection of Prospectuses, Circulars, Rules and Regulations, and Other Documents, Manuscript and Printed, Issued by the Institution.]
Author: Liverpool Collegiate Institution, afterwards Liverpool College (LIVERPOOL)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Physical Work
Author: Physical directors' society of the Young men's Christian associations
Publisher:
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Category : Physical education and training
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
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Category : Physical education and training
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Prospectus of the Female Seminary at Wethersfield, Ct. ... With notes, relating to books, etc
Author: Joseph EMERSON (of Beverly, U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description