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Author:
Davies, Paul Sheldon.
Title:
Subjects of the world : Darwin's rhetoric and the study of agency in nature / Paul Sheldon Davies.
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
259 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Teleology
Philosophy of nature
Evolution
Agent (Philosophy)
Darwin, Charles,--1809-1882--Literary style.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-251) and index.
Contents:
A progressive orientation: naturalism as exploration -- The vividness of truth: Darwin's romantic rhetoric and the evolutionary framework -- Our most vexing problem: conceptual conservatism and conceptual imperialism -- Naturalism as exploration: the elements of reform -- The allure of agency: "purpose" in biology -- The real heart of Darwinian evolutionary biology -- A formative power of a self-propagating kind: natural purposes and the concept location project -- A persistent mode of understanding: the psychological power of "purpose" -- The illusions of agency: "free will" and "moral responsibility" -- The death of an aphorism: the psychology of free will -- The bare possibility of our opinion: libertarian imperialism -- Words give us a special ability: compatibilist conservatism.
ISBN:
0226137627 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226137629 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)258770308
LCCN:
2008042033
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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