Discussion - Categorizing Humans / Ancient Materialism Purpose Now that you have read Stein's, Human Kinds and portions of Schiebinger's Competing Cosmologies, tested your knowledge of the readings in respective quizzes, and explored some issues in more detail during our class meeting, you have the opportunity for additional discussion. In this forum, you can share your perspective on the reading, ask questions for discussion or clarification, articulate further thoughts, and respond to your colleagues' questions and observations. In case you are left with any questions about the readings, please state them. (Posting that you have no questions is not a satisfactory response to this prompt.) If there is anything that you find remarkable or problematic about the readings that has not been addressed, please state it. (Posting that there is nothing that you find remarkable or problematic is not a satisfactory response to this prompt.) What do you think about categorizing human beings? Is it acceptable to lump them together into groups or should they always and only be considered as individuals? Were the proponents of the ancient four-element theory naive, or is there anything that can make their formulation and endorsement of the theory plausible? How do the two readings connect? According to the four-element theory, do human beings of different sexes and genders constitute different natural kinds or different artifactual/social kinds