P. M. S. Hacker

Broschiertes Buch

Human Nature

Beschreibung

This major study examines the most fundamental categories in termsof which we conceive of ourselves, critically surveying theconcepts of substance, causation, agency, teleology, rationality,mind, body and person, and elaborating the conceptual fields inwhich they are embedded.

The culmination of 40 years of thought on the philosophy ofmind and the nature of the mankind
Written by one of the world's leading philosophers, theco-author of the monumental 4 volume Analytical Commentary onthe Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell Publishing,1980-2004)
Uses broad categories, such as substance, causation, agency andpower to examine how we think about ourselves and our nature
Platonic and Aristotelian conceptions of human nature aresketched and contrasted
Individual chapters clarify and provide an historical overviewof a specific concept, then link the concept to ideas contained inother chapters

Autor

P. M. S. Hacker is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. He is author of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, the first two volumes co-authored with G. P. Baker (Blackwell, 1980-96) and of Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-century Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 1996). He has also written extensively on philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, most recently Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003) and History of Cognitive Neuroscience (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), both co-authored with M. R. Bennett. He is also co-editor (with Joachim Schulte) and co-translator of the 4th edition of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781444332483
• ISBN-10: 1444332481
• Artikelnr.: 28103385

Rezensionen

"Full of helpful distinctions and arguments which show in different ways how carefully we must proceed ... and how sensitive we must be to contexts." (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)

"an outstanding contribution to contemporary metaphysics and philosophical anthropology"' (Stephen Mulhall, Philosophical Quarterly)

"an amazing achievement when writing about such potentially confusing and hotly contested issues" (Duncan Richter, Metapsychology)