PREHENSION

This book is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider some thing that we take for granted: the importance of the hand in everything we do. Drawing on evolutionary biology, anatomy, archaeolog y, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, among other disciplines, McGinn examines the role of the hand in shaping human evolution . He finds that the development of our capacity to grasp, to grip, to take hold (also known as prehension) is crucial in the emergen ce of Ho...[Read more]