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.
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.
John Dupré is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Exeter. He was formerly at Stanford University and the University of London.
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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
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
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