Human Nature: Series Number 70 (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, Series Number 70) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107651972 ISBN 13: 9781107651975

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

An understanding of human nature has been central to the work of some of the greatest philosophical thinkers including Plato, Descartes, Hume, Hobbes, Rousseau, Freud and Marx. Questions such as 'what is human nature?', 'is there such a thing as an exclusively human nature?', 'through what methods might we best discover more about our nature?', and 'to what extent are our actions and beliefs constrained by it?' are of central importance not only to philosophy, but to our general understanding of ourselves as part of the human species. This volume addresses such questions through the inclusion of special commissioned essays by specialists including John Cottingham, Hans-Johann Glock, P. M. S. Hacker, Wolfram Hinzen, Rosalind Hursthouse, Peter Kail, Sarah Patterson and Richard Samuels.

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About the Authors

Constantine Sandis was educated at the University of Oxford and has taught philosophy at the University of Bath, the University of Reading, the Open University, the Florida Institute of Technology, New York University in London, Oxford Brookes University (where he is presently a Reader in Philosophy) and for the Royal Institute of Philosophy. Constantine has published papers in numerous journals and collections and is the editor of New Essays on Action Explanation (2009), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (with Tim O'Connor, 2010), Hegel on Action (with Arto Laitinen, 2010). His monograph on The Things We Do and Why We Do Them was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan and he is currently writing a Critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Action.

M. J. Cain has a PhD in Philosophy from St Andrews University and has worked at Oxford Brookes University since 2002. Prior to that he held a Leverhulme Special Research Fellowship at the University of Nottingham. He has published numerous articles on the philosophy of mind and language and a book entitled Fodor: Mind, Language and Philosophy (2002). He is currently completing a volume on the philosophy of cognitive science.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107651972
• ISBN 13: 9781107651975
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Sandis Constantine, Cain Mark J.