Biology and Subjectivity : Philosophical Contributions to Non-reductive Neuroscience
Miguel. García-Valdecasas
Bok Engelsk 2016 · Electronic books.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (201 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Chapter 1: Biology and Subjectivity: Philosophical Contributions to a Non-reductive Neuroscience; References; Chapter 2: Self-Consciousness, Personal Identity, and the Challenge of Neuroscience; 2.1 The Challenge of Neuroscience; 2.2 Naturalism; 2.3 Self-Consciousness; 2.4 The Identity of a Person Over Time; 2.5 Manifestations of the Mind; References; Chapter 3: Mind vs. Body and Other False Dilemmas of Post-Cartesian Philosophy of Mind; 3.1 Introduction: What Are False Dilemmas and Why Are They Important?; 3.2 A "Catalog" of False Dilemmas of Modern Philosophy of Mind. - 10.2 Value in Mind: The Darwinian-Functionalist Approach. - 3.3 Ockham's Externalism3.4 Exorcizing the Demon Without an Appeal to Solipsistic Certainty; 3.5 The Hyper-Externalism of Aquinas and the Pervasiveness of Forms; 3.6 Rolling Back Our False Dilemmas; References; Chapter 4: Hylomorphism: Emergent Properties without Emergentism; 4.1 The Hylomorphic Notion of Structure; 4.2 Sparse Properties and Powers; 4.3 Individual-Making Structures; 4.4 Hylomorphic Composition; 4.5 Activity-Making Structures and Embodiment; 4.6 Naturalistic, Antireductive, and Unmysterious; References. - 6.3 The Principle of the Irreducibility of Forms and EndsReferences; Chapter 7: Body, Time and Subject; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Internal and External Perspectives on the Body; 7.3 The Dual Aspectivity of Living Beings; 7.4 The Living Being and Temporality; 7.5 Temporality and Subjectivity; 7.6 Movement, Operation and Time in an Aristotelian Approach; 7.7 An Aristotelian Perspective on the Experience of the Body; 7.8 Presence, Subject, Self; References; Chapter 8: The Enactive Philosophy of Embodiment: From Biological Foundations of Agency to the Phenomenology of Subjectivity; 8.1 Introduction. - 8.2 Biological Foundations of Agency8.3 From Affective Agency to Subjective Self; 8.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 9: Radicalizing the Phenomenology of Basic Minds with Levinas and Merleau-Ponty; 9.1 Radicalism, Basic Minds, and Phenomenology; 9.2 False Starts: Representation in Husserl and Heidegger; 9.3 Levinas' Sensibility: Embodied Intentionality Without Semantic Content; 9.4 Merleau-Ponty's Dynamic, Synergetic View of Basic Minds; 9.5 Conclusion: Radicalizing the Phenomenology of Basic Minds; References; Chapter 10: Mind and Value; 10.1 Introduction. - Chapter 5: Remarks on the Ontology of Living Beings and the Causality of Their Behavior5.1 Two Arguments for the Ontological Difference Between Corporeal and Psychic Reality; 5.2 The Somatic as Symptom of the Psychic; 5.3 An Example of the Causality of the Psychic as Such; 5.4 A Proposal for a General Model: Psychophysical Causality Through "Favoring"; References; Chapter 6: Does the Principle of Causal Closure Account for Natural Teleology?; 6.1 On the Meaning and Significance of 'Causal Closure'; 6.2 Aristotle's World of Natural Ends. - Some may consider that the language and concepts of philosophy will eventually be superseded by those of neuroscience. This book questions such a naïve assumption and through a variety of perspectives and traditions, the authors show the possible contributions of philosophy to non-reductive forms of neuroscientific research. Drawing from the full range and depth of philosophical thought, from hylomorphism to ethics, by way of dynamical systems, enactivism and value theory, amongst other topics, this edited work promotes a rich form of interdisciplinary exchange. Chapters explore the analytic, phenomenological and pragmatic traditions of philosophy, and most share a common basis in the Aristotelian tradition. Contributions address one or more aspects of subjectivity in relation to science, such as the meaning and scope of naturalism and the place of consciousness in nature, or the relation between intentionality, teleology, and causality. Readers may further explore the nature of life and its relation to mind and then the role of value in mind and nature. This book shows how philosophy might contribute to real explanatory progress in science while remaining faithful to the full complexity of the phenomena of life and mind. It will be of interest to both philosophers and neuroscientists, as well as those engaged in interdisciplinary cooperation between philosophy and science.
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| ISBN | 9783319305011
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