Human nature : the categorial framework /
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| Author / Creator: | Hacker, P. M. S. (Peter Michael Stephan) |
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| Imprint: | Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007. |
| Description: | xii, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6494785 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. The Project
- 1. Human Nature
- 2. Philosophical Anthropology
- 3. Grammatical Investigation
- 4. Philosophical Investigation
- 5. Philosophy and æMere WordsÆ
- 6. A Challenge to the Autonomy of the Philosophical Enterprise: Quine
- 7. The Platonic and the Aristotelian Traditions in Philosophical Anthropology
- Part II. Substance
- 1. Substances: Things
- 2. Substances: Stuffs
- 3. Substance-referring Expressions
- 4. Conceptual Connections between Things and Stuffs
- 5. Substances and their Substantial parts
- 6. Substances Conceived as Natural Kinds
- 7. Substances Conceived as a Common Logico-linguistic Category
- 8. A Historical Digression: Misconceptions of the Category of Substance
- Part III. Causation
- 1. Causation: Humean, Neo-Humean and Anti-Humean
- 2. On Causal Necessity
- 3. Event Causation is not a Prototype
- 4. The Inadequacy of HumeÆs Analysis: Observability, Spatio-temporal Relations, and Regularity
- 5. The Flaw in the Early Modern Debate
- 6. Agent Causation as Prototype
- 7. Agent Causation is Only a Prototype
- 8. Event Causation and Other Centres of Variation
- 9. Overview
- Part IV. Powers
- 1. Possibility
- 2. Powers of the Inanimate
- 3. Active and Passive Powers of the Inanimate
- 4. Power and its Actualization
- 5. Power and its Vehicle
- 6. First- and Second-order Powers; Loss of Power
- 7. Human Powers: Basic Distinctions
- 8. Human Powers: Further Distinctions
- 9. Dispositions
- Part V. Agency
- 1. Inanimate Agents
- 2. Inanimate Needs
- 3. Animate Agents: Needs and Wants
- 4. Volitional Agency: Preliminaries
- 5. Doings, Acts and Actions
- 6. Human Agency and Action
- 7. A Historical Overview
- 8. Human Action as Agential Causation of Movement
- Part VI. Teleology and Teleological Explanation
- 1. Teleology and Purpose
- 2. What Things have a Purpose?
- 3. Purpose and Axiology
- 4. The Beneficial
- 5. A Historical Digression: Teleology and Causality
- Part VII. Reasons and Explanation of Human Action
- 1. Rationality and Reasonableness
- 2. Reason, Reasoning and Reasons
- 3. Explaining Human Behaviour
- 4. Explanation in Terms of Agential Reasons
- 5. Causal Mythologies
- Part VIII. The Mind
- 1. Homo loquens
- 2. The Cartesian Mind
- 3. The Nature of the Mind
- Part IX. The Self and the Body
- 1. The Emergence of the PhilosophersÆ Self
- 2. The Illusions of the PhilosophersÆ Self
- 3. The Body
- 4. The Relationship between Human Beings and their Bodies
- Part X. The Person
- 1. The Emergence of the Concept
- 2. An Unholy Trinity: Descartes, Locke and Hume
- 3. Changing Bodies and Switching Brains: Puzzle Cases and Red Herrings
- 4. The Concept of a Person
- Index
