Contemporary Naturalism and Human Ontology

Eric Charmetant

Contemporary Naturalism and Human Ontology
Towards a Different Essentialism

Article

16/1 - Spring 2011, pages 59-72

Date of online publication: 24 mars 2011

Date of publication: 24 mars 2011

Abstract

Contemporary naturalism, especially through ethology, neuroscience and cognitive science, challenges the traditional ontological points of reference for determining the specificity of human beings. After illustrating the full measure of this upheaval, I will show the inadequacy of a return to traditional essentialism and will then defend the relevance of a different type of essentialism: an approach to human specificity in terms of a homeostatic property cluster.

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Charmetant, Eric. “Le contemporain naturalisme et l’ontologie humaine : vers un essentialisme différent.” Forum Philosophicum 16, no. 1 (2011): 59–72. doi:10.35765/forphil.2011.1601.05.

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