Ramsey, Grant (2012) Human nature in a post-essentialist world. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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In this paper I examine a well-known articulation of the skeptical view of human nature, a paper by Hull (1986). I then review a recent reply to Hull by Machery (2008). I show that Machery’s account of human nature is not very useful and is scientifically suspect. Finally, I introduce an alternative account of human nature—the “life-history trait cluster” conception of human nature—which I hold is scientifically sound, pragmatically useful, and makes sense of (at least some of) our intuitions about human (or, more generally, species) nature.
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| Keywords: | human nature; essentialism; species | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Anthropology Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Grant Ramsey | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 06 Nov 2012 23:46 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2012 23:46 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 9412 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Anthropology Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory |
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| Date: | 2012 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9412 |
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