MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01753nam a22003018a 4500
001 2008042033
003 DLC
005 20080926163920.0
008 080925s2009 ilu b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2008042033
020 $a9780226137629 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0226137627 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aICU/DLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aBD581$b.D25 2009
082 00 $a124$222
100 1 $aDavies, Paul Sheldon.
245 10 $aSubjects of the world :$bDarwin's rhetoric and the study of agency in nature /$cPaul Sheldon Davies.
260 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2009.
263 $a0905
300 $ap. cm.
505 0 $aPart one: A progressive orientation: naturalism as exploration -- The vividness of truth: Darwin's romantic rhetoric and the evolutionary framework -- Our most vexing problem: conceptual conservatism and conceptual imperialism -- Naturalism as exploration: the elements of reform -- Part two: The allure of agency: "purpose" in biology -- The real heart of Darwinian evolutionary biology -- A formative power of a self-propagating kind: natural purposes and the concept location project -- A persistent mode of understanding: the psychological power of "purpose" -- Part three: The illusions of agency: "free will" and "moral responsibility" -- The death of an aphorism: the psychology of free will -- The bare possibility of our opinion: libertarian imperialism -- Words give us a special ability: compatibilist conservatism.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aTeleology.
650 0 $aPhilosophy of nature.
650 0 $aEvolution.
650 0 $aAgent (Philosophy)
600 10 $aDarwin, Charles,$d1809-1882$xLiterary style.