Samir Okasha's Philosophy
Essay Review of Samir Okasha’s Agents and Goals in Evolution
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https://doi.org/10.20416/LSRSPS.V8I3.1Mots-clés :
agentivité, biologie de l'évolution, Samir OkashaRésumé
This essay offers some reflections on Samir Okasha’s new monograph Agents and Goals in Evolution, his style of doing philosophy, and the broader philosophy of nature project of trying to make sense of agency and rationality as natural phenomena.
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