TY - BOOK AU - Machuga, Ric TI - In defense of the soul: what it means to be human SN - 9781587430290 U1 - 128 M151 PY - 2002/// CY - Estados Unidos de América PB - Brazos Press KW - Filosofía de la antropología KW - Seres humanos KW - Filosofía N1 - Incluye apéndice; Incluye bibliografía; Humans as rational animals: why aristotle still matters -- Getting it right from the start: form,shape,and the nature of things -- Dividing nature at its joints: the difference between plants,animals, and humans -- Objective differences in perspective: form versus shape -- The hows of science and the whys of philosophy: why final causes are still necesary -- How aristotelians think about what they know: perceiving versus conceiving -- The challenge of evolutionary biology: why aristotelians dont fear darwing -- The challenge of artificial intelligence: calling the materialist bluff -- The inadequacy of materialism: no soul, no words -- The bogy of mechanism:why our actions will always be unpredictable -- Freedom and rationality: cant have one without the other ER -