Toward a Metaphysics of Culture provides an initial, minimal, and
original analysis of the concept of uniquely enlanguaged cultures
of the human world and of the distinctive metaphysical features of
whatever belongs to the things of that world: preeminently,
persons, language, actions, artworks, products, history, practices,
institutions, and norms. Emphasis is placed on the artifactual and
hybrid nature of persons, naturalistic and post-Darwinian
evolutionary considerations, and the bearing of the account on a
range of disputed inquiries largely centered on the relationship
between physical nature and human culture and between the natural
and human sciences. The schema offered lays a foundation for a
closer analysis of the human mind, cognition, interpretation,
nomologicality, normativity, intentionality, realism, and related
matters. The central thesis advances the heterodox notion,
congruent with post-Darwinian studies in paleoanthropology, that
the human person is a natural artifact, a functional transform of
the primate members of Homo sapiens, by way of a complexly
intertwined biological and encultured evolution, primarily
dependent on the invention, transmission, and mastery of true
language and the novel hybrid abilities that that makes possible.
The emergence of persons is taken to be the obverse side of the
mastery of language itself.
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