Machery

What do essentialist theories of human nature amount to? What do nomological theories (like Machery’s) of human nature amount to?

Reaction Paper Assignment Descartes (1641) comes to the conclusion at the end of Meditation 2 that what “I” refers to is a thinking thing. Humans in this view are essentially thinking things. Descartes ultimately came to the conclusion that only humans have minds, other animals being mere automata. Birch et al. (2020) explain that the […]

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