书名: Human Nature: The Categorial Framework
作者: P.M.S. Hacker (Author)
出版社: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (August 24, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1405147288
ISBN-13: 978-1405147286
Book Description
What distinguishes humanity from the rest of animate nature? What grounds the distinctive powers of human beings? What are the forms of explanation proper to the understanding of the exercise of these powers in action? Human beings have both a mind and a body – but what is a mind? What is it to have a body? How is a person’s mind related to their body? And what is a person?
This major new study, by one of the most penetrating and persistent critics of philosophical and scientific orthodoxy, returns to Aristotle in order to examine the salient categories in terms of which we think about ourselves and our nature. An overview of the concepts of substance, causation, power and agency provides the background for an investigation into teleology, rationality and explanations of behaviour in terms of reasons. This is the stage-set for the analysis of the concepts of mind, self, body and person.
This essay in philosophical anthropology ranges widely over themes in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and of action, and philosophy of biology, blending powerful philosophical analysis with a masterful grasp of the history of philosophical reflection on the topics in question.
Review
"A remarkable contribution. A brilliant work in philosophical anthropology. This is philosophy as it should be. Thoroughly original and completely convincing. It is difficult to imagine a more perspicuous rendering of the ramifying network of concepts that comprise ‘the human.’" -- Dennis Patterson, Rutgers University
“Full of helpful distinctions and arguments which show in different ways how carefully we must proceed … and how sensitive we must be to contexts.” -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
“Hacker's book represents the culmination of nearly 40 years of philosophical reflection on the nature of mind and world. This volume ‘clears old pathways from overgrowth and uproots misleading signposts’ in an effort not only to provide clear insight into the character of human reason, disposition, and action, but also to offer a better understanding of the human mind, self, and person. Recommended.” -- Choice Reviews
About the Author
P. M. S. Hacker is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. He is author of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, the first two volumes co-authored with G. P. Baker (Blackwell, 1980-96) and of Wittgenstein’s Place in Twentieth-century Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 1996). He has also written extensively on philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, most recently Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003), co-authored with M. R. Bennett.
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作者: P.M.S. Hacker (Author)
出版社: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (August 24, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1405147288
ISBN-13: 978-1405147286
Book Description
What distinguishes humanity from the rest of animate nature? What grounds the distinctive powers of human beings? What are the forms of explanation proper to the understanding of the exercise of these powers in action? Human beings have both a mind and a body – but what is a mind? What is it to have a body? How is a person’s mind related to their body? And what is a person?
This major new study, by one of the most penetrating and persistent critics of philosophical and scientific orthodoxy, returns to Aristotle in order to examine the salient categories in terms of which we think about ourselves and our nature. An overview of the concepts of substance, causation, power and agency provides the background for an investigation into teleology, rationality and explanations of behaviour in terms of reasons. This is the stage-set for the analysis of the concepts of mind, self, body and person.
This essay in philosophical anthropology ranges widely over themes in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and of action, and philosophy of biology, blending powerful philosophical analysis with a masterful grasp of the history of philosophical reflection on the topics in question.
Review
"A remarkable contribution. A brilliant work in philosophical anthropology. This is philosophy as it should be. Thoroughly original and completely convincing. It is difficult to imagine a more perspicuous rendering of the ramifying network of concepts that comprise ‘the human.’" -- Dennis Patterson, Rutgers University
“Full of helpful distinctions and arguments which show in different ways how carefully we must proceed … and how sensitive we must be to contexts.” -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
“Hacker's book represents the culmination of nearly 40 years of philosophical reflection on the nature of mind and world. This volume ‘clears old pathways from overgrowth and uproots misleading signposts’ in an effort not only to provide clear insight into the character of human reason, disposition, and action, but also to offer a better understanding of the human mind, self, and person. Recommended.” -- Choice Reviews
About the Author
P. M. S. Hacker is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. He is author of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, the first two volumes co-authored with G. P. Baker (Blackwell, 1980-96) and of Wittgenstein’s Place in Twentieth-century Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 1996). He has also written extensively on philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, most recently Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003), co-authored with M. R. Bennett.
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