Evolution of Human Wisdom

Celia Deane-Drummond is professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.Agustín Fuentes is professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame.

• Introduction by Celia Deane-Drummond and Agustín FuentesPrologue: Philosophical ParametersChapter 1: The Human as World-Open Spirit: An Exploration into Philosophical Anthropology and the Foundations of Human Wisdom by Dylan BeltonPart I: Signs in Evolutionary AnthropologyChapter 2: What Can Anthropology Say about the Evolution of Human Wisdom? by Marc KisselChapter 3: In the Minds of Others by Marcus Baynes-RockPart II: Evolving Homespun WisdomChapter 4: Growing Wisdom by Ben CampbellChapter 5: Homo Sapiens Sapiens: The Human as Homemaker by Julia FederPart III: The Wisdom of SpeechChapter 6: Speaking Truthfully: A Thomistic Perspective on the Peculiar Origins of Human Language by Stewart ClemChapter 7: Precursors to Explanations of Action: Collective Intentionality and the Wisdom of Early Childhood by Craig IfflandPart IV: Evolving Wisdom as VirtueChapter 8: Change and Constancy in the Nature of Wisdom over Time by Adam WillowsChapter 9: Practical Wisdom in the Making: A Theological Approach to Early Hominin Evolution in Conversation with Modern Jewish Philosophy by Celia Deane-Drummond Epilogue: Questions and Puzzles in Evolutionary AnthropologyChapter 10: Manipulating Materials, Bodies, and Signs: How the Ecology of Creative Problem Solving, Tool Manufacture, and Imaginative Sociality Set the Context for Language in the Later Pleistocene Human Niche by Agustín Fuentes

The Evolution of Human Wisdom is an informed engagement with one of the great questions of our time—a question I doubt will ever be answered, in part because we don’t know how to ask it. The contributors, fortunately, seem to recognize this and, for the most part, maintain a consistently open, exploratory, tentative, and even humble tone. The invitation to the conversation is wide open.