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Davies, Paul Sheldon

 
9780226137636: Subjects of the World: Darwin's Rhetoric and the Study of Agency in Nature
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ISBN 10: 0226137635 ISBN 13: 9780226137636
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2014

Sinopsis

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 employed by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species. Darwin worked hard to anticipate and diminish the anxieties and biases that his radically historical view of life was bound to provoke. Likewise, Davies draws from the history of science and contemporary psychology and neuroscience to build a framework for the study of human agency that identifies and diminishes outdated and limiting biases. The result is a heady, philosophically wide-ranging argument in favor of recognizing that humans are, like everything else, subjects of the natural world—an acknowledgement that may free us to see the world the way it actually is.

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Paul Sheldon Davies is professor of philosophy at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of Norms of Nature.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226137635
ISBN 13 
9780226137636
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Número de páginas
267
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