Autore	Hacker P. M. S (Peter Michael Stephan)
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford, : Blackwell, 2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xii, 326 p.)
Disciplina	128
Soggetto topico	Philosophical anthropology Anthropology
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-06933-7 9786611069339 0-470-69216-2 0-470-76609-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preface. Chapter 1 The Project. 1. Human nature. 2. Philosophical anthropology. 3. Grammatical investigation. 4. Philosophical investigation. 5. Philosophy and 'mere words'. 6. A challenge to the autonomy of the philosophical enterprise: Quine. 7. The Platonic and Aristotelian traditions in philosophical anthropology. Chapter 2 Substance. 1. Substances: things. 2. Substances: stuffs. 3. Substance-referring expressions. 4. Conceptual connections between things and stuffs. 5. Substances and their substantial parts. 6. Substances conceived as natural kinds. 7. Substances conceived as a common logico-linguistic category. 8. A historical digression: misconceptions of the category of substance. Chapter 3 Causation. 1. Causation: Humean, neo-Humean and anti-Humean. 2. On causal necessity. 3. Event causation is not a prototype. 4. The inadequacy of Hume's analysis: observability, spatio-temporal relations and regularity. 5. The flaw in the early modern debate. 6. Agent causation as prototype. 7. Agent causation is only a prototype. 8. Event causation and other centres of variation. 9. Overview. Chapter 4 Powers. 1. Possibility. 2. Powers of the inanimate. 3. Active and passive powers of the inanimate. 4. Power and its actualization. 5. Power and its vehicle. 6. First- and second-order powers; loss of power. 7. Human powers: basic distinctions. 8. Human powers: further distinctions. 9. Dispositions. Chapter 5 Agency. 1. Inanimate agents. 2. Inanimate needs. 3. Animate agents: needs and wants. 4. Volitional agency: preliminaries. 5. Doings, acts and actions. 6. Human agency and action. 7. A historical overview. 8. Human action as agential causation of movement. Chapter 6 Teleology and Teleological Explanation. 1. Teleology and purpose. 2. What things have a purpose? 3. Purpose and axiology. 4. The beneficial. 5. A historical digression: teleology and causality. Chapter 7 Reasons and Explanation of Human Action. 1. Rationality and reasonableness. 2. Reason, reasoning and reasons. 3. Explaining human behaviour. 4. Explanation in terms of agential reasons. 5. Causal mythologies. Chapter 8 The Mind. 1. Homo loquens . 2. The Cartesian mind. 3. The nature of the mind. Chapter 9 The Self and the Body. 1. The emergence of the philosophers' self. 2. The illusion of the philosophers' self. 3. The body. 4. The relationship between human beings and their bodies. Chapter 10 The Person. 1. The emergence of the concept. 2. An unholy trinity: Descartes, Locke and Hume. 3. Changing bodies and switching brains: puzzle cases and red herrings. 4. The concept of a person. Index.
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Autore	Leaf Murray J
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (477 p.)
Disciplina	301
Altri autori (Persone)	ReadDwight W. <1943->
Soggetto topico	Philosophical anthropology Social groups Social structure Thought and thinking
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-54291-9 9786613855367 0-7391-7029-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Figures and Tables; Orthography and Notation; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Assumptions; Chapter 3: The Organizational Rubicon of the Upper Paleolithic; Chapter 4: Fundamentals of Human Social Organization; Chapter 5: Elicitation of Kinship Terminology Structure; Chapter 6: Theory of Kinship Terminology Structures; Chapter 7: Construction of a Kinship Algebra Model; Chapter 8: Kariera Kinship and Social Organization; Chapter 9: Formal Algebraic Construction of the Kariera Terminology; Chapter 10: The Physical Farm Budget Chapter 11: Idea Systems and Communication TheoryChapter 12: Conclusion; References; Index; About the Authors
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Autore	Leaf Murray J
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (477 p.)
Disciplina	301
Altri autori (Persone)	ReadDwight W. <1943->
Soggetto topico	Philosophical anthropology Social groups Social structure Thought and thinking
ISBN	1-283-54291-9 9786613855367 0-7391-7029-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Figures and Tables; Orthography and Notation; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Assumptions; Chapter 3: The Organizational Rubicon of the Upper Paleolithic; Chapter 4: Fundamentals of Human Social Organization; Chapter 5: Elicitation of Kinship Terminology Structure; Chapter 6: Theory of Kinship Terminology Structures; Chapter 7: Construction of a Kinship Algebra Model; Chapter 8: Kariera Kinship and Social Organization; Chapter 9: Formal Algebraic Construction of the Kariera Terminology; Chapter 10: The Physical Farm Budget Chapter 11: Idea Systems and Communication TheoryChapter 12: Conclusion; References; Index; About the Authors
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Autore	Seshadri Kalpana
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Minneapolis ; ; London, : University of Minnesota Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xviii, 309 pages)
Disciplina	128
Collana	Posthumanities
Soggetto topico	Philosophical anthropology Silence (Philosophy) Feral children
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4529-4824-0 0-8166-8146-5 0-8166-7789-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	First words on silence -- The secret of literary silence -- Law, "life/living," language -- Between Derrida and Agamben -- The wild child : politics and ethics of the name -- The wild child and scientific names -- HumAnimal acts : potentiality or movement as rest.
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