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Dominik (Hrsg.) Perler

The Faculties

A History

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It seems quite natural to explain the activities of human and non-human animals by referring to their special faculties. Thus, we say that dogs can smell things in their environment because they have perceptual faculties, or that human beings can think because they have rational faculties. But what are faculties? In what sense are they responsible for a wide range of activities? How can they be individuated? How are they interrelated? And why are different types of faculties assigned to different types of living beings?The six chapters in this book discuss these questions, covering a wide period from Plato up to contemporary debates about fac… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-993526-0
  • EAN: 9780199935260
  • Produktnummer: 18393352
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 1'936 KB

Über den Autor


Dominik Perler is Professor of Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. He previously taught at Oxford and Basel and has had visiting appointments at UCLA, Tel Aviv, Wisconsin-Madison and Princeton. He is Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Arts and Science. His research focuses on medieval and early modern philosophy

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