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024 7 _a10.1017/9781108685481
_2doi
040 _aStDuBDS
_beng
_cStDuBDS
_erda
_epn
050 4 _aBD450
_b.R3 2023
082 0 4 _a128
_223
100 1 _aRamsey, Grant,
_d1972-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHuman nature /
_cGrant Ramsey.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2023.
300 _a1 online resource (56 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of biology,
_x2515-1126
500 _aAlso issued in print: 2023.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
506 0 _aOpen Access.
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 8 _aHuman nature is frequently evoked to characterize our species and describe how it differs from others. But how should we understand this concept? What is the nature of a species? Some take our nature to be an essence and argue that because humans lack an essence, they also lack a nature. Others argue for non-essentialist ways of understanding human nature, which usually aim to provide criteria for sorting human traits into one of two bins, the one belonging to our nature and the other outside our nature. This Element argues that both the essentialist and trait bin approaches are misguided. Instead, the author develops a trait cluster account of human nature, which holds that human nature is based on the distribution of our traits over our (actual and possible) life histories. One benefit of this account is that it aligns human nature with the human sciences, rendering the central concern of the human sciences to be the study of human nature. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
521 _aSpecialized.
588 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 25, 2023).
650 0 _aHuman behavior
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aPhilosophical anthropology.
776 0 8 _iPrint version :
_z9781009440646
830 0 _aCambridge elements.
_pElements in the philosophy of biology,
_x2515-1126.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108685481
999 _c38567
_d38567