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Human nature /



Human nature / edited by Constantine Sandis and M. J. Cain. - x, 279 pages : illustration ; 23 cm. - Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement, 70 1358-2461 ; . - Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ; 70. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Science and human nature / Essentialism, externalism, and human nature / Human nature and grammar / Can evolutionary biology do without Aristotelian essentialism? / The anthropological difference : what can philosphers do to identify the differences between human and non-human animals? / Paul Broca and the evolutionary genetics of cerebral asymmetry / The sad and sorry history of consciousness : being, among other things, a challenge to the "consciousness-studies community" / Human nature and Aristotelian virtue ethics / Doubt and human nature in Descartes's Meditations / The sceptical beast in the beastly sceptic : human nature in Hume / Human nature and the transcendent / Being human : religion and superstition in a psychoanalytic philosophy of religion / Richard Samuels -- M.J. Cain -- Wolfram Hinzen -- Stephen J. Boulter -- Hans-Johann Glock -- Tim J. Crow -- P.M.S. Hacker -- Rosalind Hursthouse -- Sarah Patterson -- P.J.E. Kail -- John Cottingham -- Beverley Clack.

9781107651975 (pbk.) 1107651972 (pbk.)


Consciousness.
Philosophy of mind.
Human behavior.

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