Human Nature

Notes on contributors; Preface; 1. Science and human nature Richard Samuels; 2. Essentialism, externalism, and human nature M. J. Cain; 3. Human nature and grammar Wolfram Hinzen; 4. Can evolutionary biology do without Aristotelian essentialism? Stephen J. Boulter; 5. The anthropological difference: what can philosophers do to identify the differences between human and non-human animals? Hans-Johann Glock; 6. Paul Broca and the evolutionary genetics of cerebral asymmetry Tim J. Crow; 7. The sad and sorry history of consciousness: being, among other things, a challenge to the 'consciousness-studies community' P. M. S. Hacker; 8. Human nature and Aristotelian virtue ethics Rosalind Hursthouse; 9. Doubt and human nature in Descartes's meditations Sarah Patterson; 10. The sceptical beast of the beastly sceptic: human nature in Hume P. J. E. Kail; 11. Human nature and the transcendent John Cottingham; 12. Being human: religion and superstition in a psychoanalytic philosophy of religion Beverley Clack.