CRJS 1011 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading for Week 2: Natural Kind, Aryan Race
19 Jan 2017
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What does it mean to be human: david smith - https://www. psychologytoday. com/blog/philosophy- dispatches/201205/what-does-it-mean-be-human. Paleoanthropology identifies human with species = homo sapiens. Differences in definition are due to the complete absence of evidence (cid:498)(uman(cid:499) = folk-category rather than a scientific one so biologists can(cid:495)t define. When someone decides that all and only homo sapiens are humans = this is a what organism is a human organism due to this preference of where the boundary between humans and non-humans. Should be drawn, instead of actually discovering where the boundary actually lays history = the caribbean islands. Why not turn to the folk for an answer: multiplies the problem, examples of indexical terms = (cid:498)now(cid:499), (cid:498)here(cid:499), and (cid:498))(cid:499) Spanish colonists felt similarly about indigenous inhabitants of. Abortion, question of whether the embryo is a human being (a term that gets its content from the context in which it is uttered) versus a taxonomic category. They all define the situation in which they are used.
