What's Left of Human Nature? : A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept /

A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges. Human nature has always been a foundational issue for philosophy. What does it mean to have a human nature? Is the concept the relic of a bygone age? What is the use o...

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Autor principal: Kronfeldner, Maria E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kritik
Essentialismus
Umweltfaktor
Epigenetik
Evolutionstheorie
Philosophische Anthropologie
Entmenschlichung
Menschenbild
Philosophy of mind.
Philosophical anthropology.
Human beings.
Human behavior.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
Homo sapiens (species)
human behavior.
philosophical anthropology.
Homme.
Comportement humain.
Anthropologie philosophique.
Philosophie de l'esprit.
Behavior
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: What's at Issue
  • I. Three Challenges. The Dehumanization Challenge ; The Darwinian Challenge ; The Developmentalist Challenge
  • II. Three Natures : A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Reply to the Three Challenges. Genealogy, the Classificatory Nature, and Channels of Inheritance ; Toward a Descriptive Human Nature ; The Stability of Human Nature ; An Explanatory Nature ; Causal Selection and How Human Nature Is Thereby Made
  • III. Normativity, Essential Contestedness, and the Quest for Elimination. Humanism and Normativity ; Should We Eliminate the Language of Human Nature?

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