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HUMANS AND OTHER ANIMALS
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| By: |
John Dupre |
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Paperback |
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£33.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199247102 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199247103 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
17 August, 2006 |
| Pages: |
284 |
| Description: |
John Dupre 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 ofour species. We must take a pluralistic view of biology and the human sciences. |
| Synopsis: |
John Dupre explores the ways in which we categorize animals, including humans, and comes to surprisingly radical conclusions. He opposes the idea that there is only one legitimate way of classifying things in the natural world, the 'scientific' way. The lesson we should learn from Darwin is to reject the idea that each organism has an essence that determines its necessary place in the unique hierarchy of things. Nature is not like that: it is not organized in a single system. There is no universal principle by which organisms can be sorted into species; still less is there any unique way of classifying kinds of humans. We are obliged to accept that different classificatory schemes are valid for different purposes, and therefore to take a pluralistic view of biology and the human sciences. These provocative and readable essays move on to discuss a set of contentious topics relating to human nature. To start with, Dupre argues that the concept of a universal human nature should be rejected. He q |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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