P. M. S. Hacker - Human Nature: The Categorial Framework

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Recent books by P. M. S. Hacker published by Wiley-Blackwell

Wittgensteins Place in Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy (1996)

Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (2003), co-authored with M. R. Bennett

Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning , Volume 1 of An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations , Part I Essays (2005), co-authored with G. P. Baker, second, extensively revised edition by P. M. S. Hacker

Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning , Volume 1 of An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations , Part II Exegesis 1184 (2005), co-authored with G. P. Baker, second, extensively revised edition by P. M. S. Hacker

History of Cognitive Neuroscience (2008), co-authored with M. R. Bennett

Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar, and Necessity , Volume 2 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations Essays and Exegesis of 185242 (2009), co-authored with G. P. Baker, second, extensively revised edition by P. M. S. Hacker

This paperback edition first published 2010

2010 by P. M. S. Hacker.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hacker, P. M. S. (Peter Michael Stephan)

Human nature : the categorial framework / P. M. S. Hacker.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-4728-6 (hardback: alk. paper) 978-1-4443-3248-3

(paperback : alk. paper) 1. Philosophical anthropology. I. Title.

BD450.H2355 2007

128dc22

2006103171

A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.

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