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Why we disagree about human nature
- Title
- Why we disagree about human nature / edited by Elizabeth Hannon and Tim Lewens.
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- xii, 214 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Is human nature something that the natural and social sciences aim to describe, or is it a pernicious fiction? What role, if any, does human nature play in directing and informing scientific work? Leading figures from the life sciences, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology present new essays exploring these questions.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Informational works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The faces of human nature / Tim Lewens -- Doubling down on the nomological notion of human nature / Edouard Machery -- Trait bin and trait cluster accounts of human nature / Grant Ramsey -- A developmental systems account of human nature / Karola Stotz and Paul Griffiths -- Human nature, natural pedagogy, and evolutionary causal essentialism / Cecilia Heyes -- Human nature : a process perspective / John Dupré -- Sceptical reflections on human nature / Kim Sterelny -- The social construction of human nature / Kevin N. Laland and Gillian R. Brown -- The use and non-use of the human nature concept by evolutionary biologists / Peter J. Richerson -- Human ontogenies as historical processes : an anthropological perspective / Christina Toren -- Divide and conquer : the authority of nature and why we disagree about human nature / Maria Kronfeldner.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-1824
- ISBN
- 9780198823650
- 0198823657
- LCCN
- 2017963189
- OCLC
- 1017607051
- Title
- Why we disagree about human nature / edited by Elizabeth Hannon and Tim Lewens.
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Hannon, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Mary), editor.Lewens, Tim, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-1824