Contemporary Naturalism and Human Ontology: Towards a Different Essentialism

• Authors: Éric Charmetant
• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

Contemporary naturalism, especially through ethology, neuroscience and cognitive science, challenges the traditional ontological points of reference for determining the specificity of human beings. After illustrating the full measure of this upheaval, I will show the inadequacy of a return to traditional essentialism and will then defend the relevance of a different type of essentialism: an approach to human specificity in terms of a homeostatic property cluster.

Keywords

EN

Naturalism; Cognitive Science; Neurosciences; Essentialism; Human Behavior

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Forum Philosophicum
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 59-72

Dates

published

2011

Contributors

author

Éric Charmetant

• Centre Sèvres—Facultés jésuites de Paris

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