Humans and Other Animals

John A. Dupré

272 pages, parution le 16/12/2002

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Résumé

John Dupré presents a set of provocative and highly readable essays exploring the ways in which we categorize animals, including humans: he comes to surprisingly radical conclusions. We must reject the idea that each organism has an essence that determines its necessary place in the unique hierarchy of things. Nature is not organized in a single system. It is a mistake to generalize about human nature--for instance, about the gender roles or sexual behaviour of our species. We must take a pluralistic view of biology and the human sciences.

Contents

Introduction
I.Kinds of Animals in Everyday Life
1 Natural Kinds and Biological Taxa
2 Are Whales Fish?
II. Kinds of Animals in Biological Science
3 On the Impossibility of a Monistic Account of Species
4 In Defence of Classification
III. Kinds of Kinds
5 Is 'Natural Kind' a Natural Kind Term?
IV. Kinds of People
6 Human Kinds
7 Darwin and Human Nature
V. Gendered People
8 Sex, Gender, and Essence
9 What the Theory of Evolution Can't Tell Us
VI. Differences between Humans and Other Animals
10 The Mental Lives of Non-Human Animals
11 Conversations with Apes

L'auteur - John A. Dupré

John A. Dupré is Professor of Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Exeter. He lectures extensively in the U.K., North America, and Europe. His main area of research is the philosophy of science with special interest in the philosophy of biology, the role of values in science, and the nature of biological species. His books include Human Nature and the Limits of Science (OUP).

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	John A. Dupré
Parution	16/12/2002
Nb. de pages	272
Format	14,5 x 22
Couverture	Relié
Poids	435g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780199247097
ISBN13	978-0-19-924709-7