Human Nature and the Limits of Science

by John Dupré

Book Overview

John Dupr warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. Not just in the academic world but in everyday life, we find one set of experts who seek to explain the ends at which humans aim in terms of evolutionary theory, while the other set uses economic models to give rules of how we act to achieve those ends. Dupr demonstrates that these theorists' explanations do not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199248060
• ISBN13: 9780199248063
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"