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What's left of human nature? :

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0262038412

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9780262038416

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What's left of human nature? :

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[Book]

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a post-essentialist, pluralist, and interactive account of a contested concept /

First Statement of Responsibility

Maria Kronfeldner.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Massachusetts :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The MIT Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2018]

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xxxii, 301 pages :

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illustrations ;

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24 cm.

Series Title

Life and mind: philosophical issues in biology and psychology

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-287) and index.

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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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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 of such a concept? What are the epistemic and ontological commitments people make when they use the concept? In What's Left of Human Nature? Maria Kronfeldner offers a philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against contemporary criticism. In particular, she takes on challenges related to social misuse of the concept that dehumanizes those regarded as lacking human nature (the dehumanization challenge); the conflict between Darwinian thinking and essentialist concepts of human nature (the Darwinian challenge); and the consensus that evolution, heredity, and ontogenetic development result from nurture and nature.

Human behavior.

Human beings.

Philosophical anthropology.

Essentialismus

Human behavior.

Human beings.

Kritik

Mensch

Philosophical anthropology.

Philosophische Anthropologie

PHILOSOPHY-- General.

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Edition

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Kronfeldner, Maria E.

Date of Transaction

20200822104729.0

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