Human nature / edited by Constantine Sandis and M. J. Cain.
Series: Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ; 70.New York : Cambridge University Press, c2012Description: x, 279 pages : illustration ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781107651975 (pbk.)
- 1107651972 (pbk.)
- 128 23 H918

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