The Philosophical Roots Of Anthropology
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Author | : William Yewdale Adams |
Publisher | : Stanford Univ Center for the Study |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781575861289 |
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Anthropologists claim to have made mankind aware of its own prehistory and its importance to human self-understanding. Yet, anthropologists seem hardly to have discovered their own discipline's prehistory or to have realized its importance. William Y. Adams attempts to rectify this myopic self-awareness by applying anthropology's own tools on itself and uncovering the discipline's debt to earlier thinkers. Like most anthropologists, Adams had previously accepted the premise that anthropology's intellectual roots go back no further than the moral philosophy of the Enlightenment, or perhaps at the earliest to the humanism of the Renaissance. In this volume, Adams recognizes that many good ideas were anticipated in antiquity and that these ideas have had a lasting influence on anthropological models in particular. He has chosen five philosophical currents whose influence has been, and is, very widespread, particularly in North American anthropology: progressivism, primitivism, natural law, German idealism, and "Indianology". He argues that the influences of these currents in North American anthropology occur in a unique combination that is not found in the anthropologies of other countries. Without neglecting the anthropologies of other countries, this work serves as the basis for the explanation of the true historical and philosophical underpinnings of anthropology and its goals.
Author | : Ananta Kumar Giri |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0857280813 |
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Philosophy and anthropology have many, but largely unexplored, links and interrelationships. Historically, they have informed each other in subtle ways. This volume of original essays explores and enhances this relationship through anthropological engagement with philosophy and vice versa, the nature, sources and history of philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and the practical, methodological and theoretical implications of a dialogue between the two subjects. ‘Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossings and Transformations’ seeks to enrich both the humanities and the social sciences through its informative and stimulating essays.
Author | : I.C. Jarvie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2015-07-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317401182 |
Download Rationality and Relativism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Anthropology revolves round answers to problems about the nature, development and unity of mankind; problems that are both philosophical and scientific. In this book, first published in 1984, Professor Jarvie applies Popper’s philosophy of science to understanding the history and theory of anthropology. Jarvie describes how the ancient view that the aim of science and philosophy was to get at the truth is challenged in anthropology by the doctrine of cultural relativism; that is, that truth varies with the cultural framework. He shows how philosophers as various as Peter Winch, W.V.O. Quine, W.T. Jones, Nelson Goodman and Richard Rorty were influenced by this doctrine. Yet these philosophers also accept the value of rational argument. Jarvie believes that there is a contradiction between relativism and any notion of human rationality that centres around argument. Forced by the contradiction to choose between rationality and relativism, he argues strongly that logical, scientific and moral considerations favour rationality and urge repudiation of relativism. The central argument of the book is that relativism is intellectually disastrous and has fostered intellectual attitudes from which anthropology still suffers.
Author | : Scott Atran |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1993-01-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521438711 |
Download Cognitive Foundations of Natural History Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Inspired by a debate between Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget, this work traces the development of natural history from Aristotle to Darwin, and demonstrates how the science of plants and animals has emerged from the common conceptions of folkbiology.
Author | : Immanuel Kant |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2007-11-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521452503 |
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This 2007 volume contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature.
Author | : Maxine Sheets-Johnstone |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2010-04-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1439903654 |
Download The Roots Of Thinking Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A ground-breaking interdisciplinary study about conceptual origins linking hominid thinking with hominid evolution.
Author | : Martin Demant Frederiksen |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2018-08-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 178535700X |
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There have been claims that meaninglessness has become epidemic in the contemporary world. One perceived consequence of this is that people increasingly turn against both society and the political establishment with little concern for the content (or lack of content) that might follow. Most often, encounters with meaninglessness and nothingness are seen as troubling. "Meaning" is generally seen as being a cornerstone of the human condition, as that which we strive towards. This was famously explored by Viktor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning in which he showed how even in the direst of situations individuals will often seek to find a purpose in life. But what, then, is at stake when groups of people negate this position? What exactly goes on inside this apparent turn towards nothing, in the engagement with meaninglessness? And what happens if we take the meaningless seriously as an empirical fact?
Author | : Michael Carrithers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Laidlaw |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107028469 |
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A clearly written, sophisticated summary of and prospectus for a flourishing current field of anthropological research.
Author | : John H. Zammito |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 589 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226978591 |
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If Kant had never made the "critical turn" of 1773, would he be worth more than a paragraph in the history of philosophy? Most scholars think not. But this text challenges that view by revealing a precritical Kant who was immensely more influential than the one philosophers think they know.