The Knowing Animal: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Knowledge and Truth

by Raymond Tallis

In The Hand, the first volume of his trilogy, Raymond Tallis looked at how humans have overcome the constraints of biology. The second volume, I Am, focused on two crucial aspects of the escape from being a mere organism: selfhood and agency. This, the final volume in the trilogy, argues that knowledge is unique to human beings and sufficiently important to call man 'the knowing animal'.Raymond Tallis examines the profound difference...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748619534
• ISBN13: 9780748619535
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher