[SydPhil] Reminder: Anik Waldow @ Mon 20 May 2013 13:00 - 14:30 (Current Projects)

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Title: Anik Waldow
Understanding Human Nature
When we refer to human nature we often do so in order to say that there are  
aspects of ourselves that are fixed and cannot be changed. In this talk I  
will challenge this conception of human nature by engaging with the  
eighteenth-century practice of thinking of humans as malleable, adaptive  
animals that form themselves by emotionally responding to their social  
environment. On this account, nature in the guise of our natural  
susceptibility to the world and others emerges as the cause that delimits  
how we learn and what we can learn, while artifice manifests itself as a  
substantial ingredient in naturally unfolding processes triggered by  
interactions with our surroundings, thus jointly depriving the  
nature-nurture distinction of its explanatory function.

When: Mon 20 May 2013 13:00 – 14:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney
Where: Philosophy Common Room, University of Sydney
Calendar: Current Projects
Who:
     * kristiemiller4 at gmail.com- creator

Event details:  
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