TY - JOUR
T1 - Evolutionary perspectives and transdisciplinary intersections
T2 - A roadmap to generative areas of overlap in discussing human nature
AU - Fuentes, Agustin
N1 - Funding Information:
I wish to thank Celia Deane-Drummond, Aku Visala, and two anonymous reviews for beneficial feedback on earlier versions of this paper. I also offer special thanks to the Center of Theological Inquiry, the fellows in the Inquiry on Evolution and Human Nature and my colleagues in the University of Notre Dame Human Nature(s) working group for their generous and engaging intellectual support. This work was supported by a grant (JTF #20926) from the Sir John Templeton Foundation.
PY - 2013/5/1
Y1 - 2013/5/1
N2 - This essay assesses a subset of approaches to the topic of human nature(s) and endeavors to identify generative areas of overlap for transdisciplinary conversation. Rather than pursue a resolution to the problem of potentially incompatible frameworks across perspectives, I seek to provide a template, or a roadmap, for a better conversation. My conclusions derive from a targeted literature assessment of subareas within the disciplines of philosophy, biology, anthropology, psychology, and theology, emphasizing those open to evolutionary contexts. I highlight eighteen core elements/themes and propose a few central thematic clusters as foci for moving the exchange on human nature between theology and science forward.
AB - This essay assesses a subset of approaches to the topic of human nature(s) and endeavors to identify generative areas of overlap for transdisciplinary conversation. Rather than pursue a resolution to the problem of potentially incompatible frameworks across perspectives, I seek to provide a template, or a roadmap, for a better conversation. My conclusions derive from a targeted literature assessment of subareas within the disciplines of philosophy, biology, anthropology, psychology, and theology, emphasizing those open to evolutionary contexts. I highlight eighteen core elements/themes and propose a few central thematic clusters as foci for moving the exchange on human nature between theology and science forward.
KW - Evolution
KW - Human distinctiveness
KW - Human nature
KW - Human-animal interface
KW - Transdisciplinary
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U2 - 10.1080/14746700.2013.780430
DO - 10.1080/14746700.2013.780430
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84877750585
SN - 1474-6700
VL - 11
SP - 106
EP - 129
JO - Theology and Science
JF - Theology and Science
IS - 2
ER -