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Subjects of the World (Paperback)
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Subjects of the World (Paperback)
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Being human while trying to scientifically study human nature
confronts us with our most vexing problem. Efforts to explicate the
human mind are thwarted by our cultural biases and entrenched
infirmities; our first-person experiences as practical agents
convince us that we have capacities beyond the reach of scientific
explanation. What we need to move forward in our understanding of
human agency, Paul Sheldon Davies argues, is a reform in the way we
study ourselves and a long overdue break with traditional humanist
thinking. Davies locates a model for change in the rhetorical
strategies employed by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species.
Darwin worked hard to anticipate and diminish the anxieties and
biases that his radically historical view of life was bound to
provoke. Likewise, Davies draws from the history of science and
contemporary psychology and neuroscience to build a framework for
the study of human agency that identifies and diminishes outdated
and limiting biases. The result is a heady, philosophically
wide-ranging argument in favor of recognizing that humans are, like
everything else, subjects of the natural world - an acknowledgement
that may free us to see the world the way it actually is.
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