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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
PHL2091: Philosophical Anthropology
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic reading:
Readings will be derived from the following texts:
Clive Bromhall, The Eternal Child, 1988
Merlin Donald A Mind so Rare, W.W. Norton 1971.
Merlin Donald, Origins of the Modern Mind, Harvard, 1991
Hubert Dreyfus, Skillful Coping, 2014
Arnold Gehlen, Man, Columbia, 1988
Martin Heidegger, Being And Time, 1927
Johann Gottfried Herder, An Essay on the Origin of Language, 1966 edition
Phillip Honenberger, Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology, 2016
Axel Honneth & Hans Joas, Social Action and Human Nature, 1988
Sarah Hrdy, Mothers and Others, Belknap 2011
Michael Landmann, Philosophical Anthropology, 1974
The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty, Cambridge, 2005
Steven Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind, 1996
Joseph Shear (ed) Mind, Reason and Being-in-the-World: The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate, 2013
Jos Verhulst, Developmental Dynamics in Humans and Other Primates, 1999
Helmuth Plessner, Laughing and Crying, 1970
Michael Tomasello, Why We Cooperate, Boston Review 2009
Dennis Weiss (ed) Interpreting Man, 2002
Frans De Waal, Primates and Philosophers, Princeton 2006
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