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(2014) Human extension, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Chapter 2 gives background to the concept "extension"and highlights its wide range of uses in various fields of knowledge. Sandstrom addresses the limits of evolutionary theory and the danger of evolutionistic ideology by asking a simple provocative question about "things that don't evolve". Likewise, he contends that Abrahamic believers can safely hold on to divine Creation without falling into the ideology of creationism. He reveals the principal propositions of Human Extension and elaborates on "things that extend"particularly with respect to artefacts, technologies and media, following the work of Marshall McLuhan. This reinforces the disciplinary sovereignty of "human-made things"outside of natural sciences. The chapter clarifies Human Extension as a general method for reshaping the social sciences, in contrast with being merely a "theory".
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Sandstrom, G. (2014). On the origins of human extension, in Human extension, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 12-30.
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