Being human
Subtitle: historical knowledge and the creation of human nature
By: Roger Smith.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780231141666; 9780231141673; 9780231512909
Subjects: Philosophical anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Being human; title: On the human sciences; title: Biology and human identity; title: Philosophical anthropology; title: Philosophical anthropology scorned; title: Reflexive knowledge; title: Reflexivity in modern philosophy; title: Reflexivity in modern life; title: Reflexivity in the human sciences; title: Concepts of gender, society and race; title: Relations of the natural and human sciences; title: The standard model; title: The explanation of human action; title: The new materialism; title: Does reflexivity demarcate the human from the natural sciences?; title: Precedents for the human sciences; title: Geisteswissenschaft; title: Vico and Herder; title: The moral sciences; title: Hermeneutics and understanding; title: Hermeneutics reconsidered : Gadamer; title: Historical knowledge; title: Narrative; title: Narrative purposes; title: Telling a likely story; title: What is man?; title: Values and knowledge; title: Facts and values; title: Truth as a value; title: Disciplinary knowledge; title: Different forms of knowledge; title: The moral purposes of historical knowledge; title: Epilogue: On human self-creation.