HUMAN NATURE • Prof. Steve Fuller | UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at University of Warwick, UK. "There has been undoubtedly a recent rise in interest in biological approaches to understanding the human condition. Many, if not most of these efforts, attempt to reinvigorate the idea of 'human nature'. But is this idea feasible in the light of recent developments in the biological and social sciences? Regardless of the answer one gives, the question raises the larger issue of whether 'the human' is itself a category worth defending for scientific or even political purposes. I shall argue that 'the human' is indeed worth defending but that much recent thinking and research challenges rather than aids such a project". THE ALCHEMIST CAFE Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin 15 May 2008 Camera : Marek Bogacki Produced by DOCUMENTAVI MMVIII