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  title info:
    title: Anthropology and dialectical naturalism
    sub title: a philosophical manifesto
  name:
    name part: Morris, Brian
    name part: 1936-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: quc
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 200 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In this illuminating and wide-ranging philosophical treatise, Brian Morris critiques broad swathes of recent theory as he seeks to reclaim anthropology as a historical social science. He achieves this by grounding it within a metaphysic of "dialectical naturalism" or "evolutionary realism," a tradition long ignored by academic philosophy. After reviewing the anthropological background of this worldview, the Greeks and the Enlightenment, Morris explores two essential themes. First, he critically assesses the main forms of dialectical naturalism, including Darwin's evolutionary theory, Marx's historical materialism, and the hylo-realism of the philosopher-scientist Mario Bunge. Second, he offers a strong plea to retain the dual heritage of anthropology as a historical science that combines both humanism and naturalism. A powerful philosophical manifesto, the book cogently upholds dialectical naturalism as the most grounding philosophy for anthropology and the social sciences.
  note: Brian Morris.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-193) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: GN33 .M64 2022
  classification: 301.01
  identifier: 9781551647449
  identifier: 1551647443
  identifier: 9781551647425
  identifier: 1551647427
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 200305
    record change date: 20220722131404.0
    record identifier: in00004584330
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng