Human nature and the limits of science /
John Dupré warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. Not just in the academic world but increasingly in everyday life, we find one set of experts seeking to explain the ends at which humans aim in terms of evolution...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | John Dupré warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. Not just in the academic world but increasingly in everyday life, we find one set of experts seeking to explain the ends at which humans aim in terms of evolutionary theory, and another set of experts using economic models to give rules of how we act to achieve those ends. Dupré demonstrates that these theorists' explanations do not work, and furthermore that if taken seriously their theories tend to have dangerous social and political consequences. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 201 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191530180 0191530182 0199248060 9780199248063 019926550X 9780199265503 9786612052675 6612052678 9780191597367 0191597368 1282052675 9781282052673 |