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SUMMARY:Towards a unified model of a human being - Christina Toren (Univer
 sity of St Andrews)
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CONTACT:Christopher Clarke
DESCRIPTION:Taken to its logical conclusion\, what Husserl called 'histori
 city' entails that all aspects of human being\, including all perceptual p
 rocesses\, at once evince a person’s collective-cum-personal history and
  function to structure what the world can be for him or her. This observat
 ion throws into question the model of human being that currently informs t
 he human\nsciences: that the unity of humankind is given by human biology 
 and that what differentiates us is culture. This idea of 'one unifying nat
 ure and\nmany differentiating cultures' blinds us to historicity – our o
 wn as well as others' – and to understanding its consequences for what i
 t is to be\nhuman. This paper suggests the necessity for re-thinking this 
 model\, discusses in some detail what an alternative\, unified model of hu
 man being\nmight look like\, and raises the question of what might be its 
 methodological implications for the human sciences.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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