Becoming human: the ontogenesis, metaphysics, and expression of human emotionality

In proposing a novel theory of the development of human emotionality, Jennifer Greenwood makes important contributions to the nature-nurture debate in emotion theory and the intracranialist-transcranialist debate in philosophy of mind.

Greenwood shows that the distinction between nature and nurture is unfounded; biological and cultural resources are deeply functionally integrated throughout the developmental process.

She also shows that human emotional and language development are transcranialist achievements and that human ontogenesis takes place in extended cognitive systems that include environmental, technological and sociocultural resources.