How We Think about Human Nature: The Naturalizing Error

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Philosophy of Science 87 (3):499-517 (2020)
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History is littered with scientifically ill-founded claims about human nature. They frequently appear in normative contexts, projecting ideology or values onto nature (what we call the naturalizing...

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