The Human Sciences in a Biological Age

Dread of determinism, reductionism, and the ethical and socio-political consequences of relating humans to animals.

To supply them with the 'factors' and 'variables' that make up the 'socio-ome'.

Critically evaluate the claims of biology, and develop an affirmative relationship with new understandings of the dynamic between life and its environment.

<p>Approaching the issue from the direction of the life sciences themselves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A wide-eyed acceptance of every pronouncement or the displacement of social sciences' knowledge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bipedalism, opposable fingers and thumb, or the size and capacities of the human brain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A biology that recognizes the complex interaction between organisms and environment, without reducing it to simple biological terms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are socially shaped.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sciences of the living, of living bodies, of living matter, of matter that has been made to live.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A relationship of critical friendship.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bodily comportment, the manifestation of distress, or the sense of personhood.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The possible restoration of those disciplines' power to improve the human world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The biological evolution of our species.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Human phenomena, specifically ‘intelligence, the capacity to use linguistic symbols and culture’.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It implies a need to move beyond only studying the results of biology, but to engage with core concepts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Human attributes are directly conditioned upon man’s animal past.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Scientists should describe their thinking during their scientific work, not after quitting the lab.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The thought of the living must take the idea of the living from the living.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Our relationship should not be indifferent to that knowledge; we should not treat the knowledge as just any other set of claims.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They define the structure of the rationality of the life sciences and shape our experience of ourselves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That any element of a living system can be freed from its origin and connected with other elements, while retaining its inherent properties.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Vitality in plants, animals and humans has become a domain of intervention and biovalue production.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because even simple cells have millions of moving parts, most of which are unknown and lack precise specifications.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It helps us identify what truths about ourselves, our lives, our world, and our realities make possible or preclude.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To reshape pathways in the service of life, not just reputation, grants, or profit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Boeing 747's parts are precisely specified and known, while a simple cell has millions of largely unknown and unspecified parts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Approximately 6300 kinds of genetic parts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To analyze the science while you are working in it, and to ground your perspectives on vitality on the contemporary understanding of life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The structure of sugars and lipids.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>About 100 billion neurons.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To work closely with the actual researchers and explore their operative philosophy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By empirical investigations of the operative philosophy of the biologists themselves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The focus is on the historical conditions of possibility for the emergence of different forms of knowledge and discourses about 'man'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Franklin analyzes assisted reproductive technologies as cultural phenomena that reshape understandings of kinship, reproduction, and the family.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The lectures focus on introducing the core aspects of psychoanalytic theory and its methods, in particular the unconscious mind.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The significance is that it demonstrates that life can be artificially created and controlled and further blurs the line between the living and the non-living, challenging our traditional understanding of life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Heuristics are the cognitive tools humans use to make judgments and inferences, often unconsciously, rather than acting as strictly rational agents.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Goldstein argues that organisms function as a whole, not as isolated parts, and that behavior is driven by the need to maintain integration.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She argues that the body is not simply a passive object, but actively shapes and is shaped by human subjectivity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Haraway argues against claims of objectivity and emphasizes that all knowledge is constructed from specific social locations, therefore all knowledge is necessarily partial.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To offer context and interpretation of biological findings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The dynamic interaction and co-constitution of biological and social factors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Epigenetics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Co-constitution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The potential for reductionist views of mental health.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Interpretative frameworks and contextual understanding.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By highlighting the plasticity of biological processes and gene expression.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A potential for reductionism and a neglect of complex social interactions.</p> Signup and view all the answers