The emergence of personhood : a quantum leap? /

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Imprint:Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015.
©2015
Description:ix, 246 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10448122
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Other authors / contributors:Jeeves, Malcolm A., 1926- editor.
ISBN:9780802871923
0802871925
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: The Agenda
  • Section 1.
  • The Dividing Line: What Sets Humans Apart from Our Closest Relatives?
  • Human Evolution: Personhood and Emergence
  • Personhood: Toward a Gradualist Approach
  • Emergence of Personhood: Lessons from Self and Identity
  • Section 2.
  • Morality and Personhood
  • Brain Connectivity and the Emergence of Capacities of Personhood: Reflections from Callosal Agenesis and Autism
  • The Origins of Subjectivity
  • The Emergence of Personhood: Reflections on The Game of Life
  • Section 3.
  • Cognitive Evolution, Human Uniqueness, and the Imago Dei
  • The Image and the Likeness of God: A Theological Approach
  • Retrieving the Person: Theism, Empirical Science, and the Question of Scope
  • Afterword: Toward an Emerging Picture of How We Came to Be What We Seem to Be
  • Contributors