Human Nature and the Limits of Science

Informationen zum Autor John Dupré is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Exeter. He was formerly at Stanford University and Birkbeck College, London. Human Nature and the Limits of Science is a provocative, witty, and persuasive corrective to scientism. In its place, Dupre commends a pluralistic approach to science, as the appropriate way to investigate a universe that is not unified in form. Anyone interested in science and human nature will enjoy this book, unless they are its targets. Zusammenfassung Not just in the academic world but increasingly in everyday life, we find one set of experts seeking to explain the ends at which humans aim in terms of evolutionary theory. Warning that our understanding of human nature is being distorted, the author demonstrates that these theorists' explanations do not work.

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• Authors: John Dupr?, John Dupre, John Dupré, Dupre John
• Assisted by: John Dupre (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2001
• EAN: 9780199248063
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924806-3
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Human biology