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Subjects of the world : Darwin's rhetoric and the study of agency in nature /
Being human while trying to scientifically study human nature confronts us with our most vexing problem. Efforts to explicate the human mind are thwarted by our cultural biases and entrenched infirmities; our first-person experiences as practical agents convince us that we have capacities beyond the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one: A progressive orientation: naturalism as exploration
- The vividness of truth: Darwin's romantic rhetoric and the evolutionary framework
- Our most vexing problem: conceptual conservatism and conceptual imperialism
- Naturalism as exploration: the elements of reform
- Part two: The allure of agency: "purpose" in biology
- The real heart of Darwinian evolutionary biology
- A formative power of a self-propagating kind: natural purposes and the concept location project
- A persistent mode of understanding: the psychological power of "purpose"
- Part three: The illusions of agency: "free will" and "moral responsibility"
- The death of an aphorism: the psychology of free will
- The bare possibility of our opinion: libertarian imperialism
- Words give us a special ability: compatibilist conservatism.