What's left of human nature? : a post-essentialist, pluralist, and interactive account of a contested concept /

What's left of human nature? : a post-essentialist, pluralist, and interactive account of a contested concept /

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Author / Creator:	Kronfeldner, Maria E., author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
Description:	xxxii, 301 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Life and mind: philosophical issues in biology and psychology Life and mind.
Subject:	Philosophical anthropology. Human behavior. Human beings. Human behavior. Human beings. Philosophical anthropology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11701624

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ISBN:	9780262038416 0262038412
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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.

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Call Number:	BD450 .K6993 2018
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