Subjects of the World: Darwin's Rhetoric and the Study of Agency in Nature

by Paul Sheldon Davies

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226137627
• ISBN13: 9780226137629
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"