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Human Nature and the Limits of Science

John Dupre
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      John Dupre 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 Dupre charges this "unholy alliance" of evolutionary psychologists and rational-choice theorists with scientific imperialism: they use methods and ideas developed for one domain of inquiry in others where they are inappropriate. He demonstrates that these theorists' explanations do not work, and furthermore that if taken seriously their theories tend to have dangerous social and political consequences. For these reasons, it is important to resist scientism - an exaggerated conception of what science can be expected to do for us. To say this is in no way to be against science - just against bad science Dupre aims to restore sanity to the study of human nature by pointing the way to a proper understanding of humans in the societies that are our natural and necess
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: John Dupre EAN: 9780199265503 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 285 g HEIGHT: 215 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2003-09-04 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Philosophy of science, Evolution, Human biology

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      John Dupre 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 Dupre charges this "unholy alliance" of evolutionary psychologists and rational-choice theorists with scientific imperialism: they use methods and ideas developed for one domain of inquiry in others where they are inappropriate. He demonstrates that these theorists' explanations do not work, and furthermore that if taken seriously their theories tend to have dangerous social and political consequences. For these reasons, it is important to resist scientism - an exaggerated conception of what science can be expected to do for us. To say this is in no way to be against science - just against bad science Dupre aims to restore sanity to the study of human nature by pointing the way to a proper understanding of humans in the societies that are our natural and necess
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: John Dupre EAN: 9780199265503 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 285 g HEIGHT: 215 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2003-09-04 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy of science, Evolution, Human biology

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