TY - BOOK ID - 10067614 TI - Subjects of the world : Darwin's rhetoric and the study of agency in nature. PY - 2009 SN - 9780226137629 0226137627 PB - Chicago The university of Chicago press. DB - UniCat KW - Agent (Philosophy). KW - Evolution. KW - Philosophy of nature. KW - Teleology. KW - Darwin, Charles, KW - Literary style. KW - Agent (Philosophy) KW - Evolution KW - Philosophy of nature KW - Teleology KW - Design in natural phenomena, Study of KW - Final cause KW - Philosophy KW - Causation KW - Necessity (Philosophy) KW - Nature KW - Nature, Philosophy of KW - Natural theology KW - Creation KW - Emergence (Philosophy) KW - Agency (Philosophy) KW - Agents KW - Person (Philosophy) KW - Act (Philosophy) KW - Darwin, Charles, Robert KW - Darwin, Charles UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10067614 AB - Being human while trying to scientifically study human nature confronts us with our most vexing problem. Efforts to explicate the human mind are thwarted by our cultural biases and entrenched infirmities; our first-person experiences as practical agents convince us that we have capacities beyond the reach of scientific explanation. What we need to move forward in our understanding of human agency, Paul Sheldon Davies argues, is a reform in the way we study ourselves and a long overdue break with traditional humanist thinking. Davies locates a model for change in ER -