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Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation

Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation

Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation
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Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation Soft cover - 1999

by O'Hear, Anthony

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Oxford University Press, USA, 1999. Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

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  • Title Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation
  • Author O'Hear, Anthony
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st paperback ed
  • Condition New
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Publication date 1999
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # c317109
  • ISBN 9780198250043 / 0198250045
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.17 x 6.18 x 0.54 in (23.29 x 15.70 x 1.37 cm)
  • Size 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
  • Reading level 1550
  • Category Science
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128
  • Quantity available 1

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In this controversial book O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behavior in terms of evolution. He contends that while the theory of evolution is successful in explaining the development of the natural world in general, it is of limited value when applied to the human world. Because of our reflectiveness and our rationality we take on goals and ideals which cannot be justified in terms of survival-promotion or reproductive advantage. O'Hear examines the nature of human self-consciousness, and argues that evolutionary theory cannot give a satisfactory account of such distinctive facets of human life as the quest for knowledge, moral sense, and the appreciation of beauty; in these we transcend our biological origins. It is our rationality that allows each of us to go beyond not only our biological but also our cultural inheritance: as the author says in the Preface, "we are prisoners neither of our genes nor of the ideas we encounter as we each make our personal and individual way through life."

About the author

Anthony O'Hear is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bradford. He is Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, Editor of the journal Philosophy, and a member of the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority and of the Teacher Training Authority.
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