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...

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1. Verfasser: Davies, Paul Sheldon
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Zusammenfassung: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 reach of scientific explanation. What we need to move forward in our understanding of human agency, Paul Sheldon Davies argues, is a reform in the way we study ourselves and a long overdue break with traditional humanist thinking. Davies locates a model for change in the rhetorical strategies emplo.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (259 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226137643
0226137643
0226137627
9780226137629

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