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Biology and subjectivity : philosophical contributions to non-reductive neuroscience / Miguel García-Valdecasas, José Ignacio Murillo, Nathaniel F. Barrett, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Historical-analytical studies on nature, mind and action ; v. 2.
- Historical-analytical studies on nature, mind and action ; volume 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Subject (Philosophy).
- Philosophy of mind.
- Cognitive neuroscience--Philosophy.
- Cognitive neuroscience.
- Neurosciences--Philosophy.
- Neurosciences.
- Mind and body.
- Philosophy.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 197 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Switzerland : Springer, 2016.
- Summary:
- Some may consider that the language and concepts of philosophy will eventually be superseded by those of neuroscience. This book questions such a nave assumption and through a variety of perspectives and traditions, the authors show the possible contributions of philosophy to non-reductive forms of neuroscientific research.
- Contents:
- Biology and subjectivity: philosophical contributions to a non-reductive neuroscience / José Ignacio Murillo, Miguel García-Valdecasas, and Nathaniel F. Barrett
- Self-consciousness, personal identity, and the challenge of neuroscience / Dieter Sturma
- Mind vs. body and other false dilemmas of post-Cartesian philosophy of mind / Gyula Klima
- Hylomorphism: emergent properties without emergentism / William Jaworski
- Remarks on the ontology of living beings and the causality of their behavior / Thomas Buchheim
- Does the principle of causal closure account for natural teleology? / Miguel García-Valdecasas
- Body, time and subject / José Ignacio Murillo
- The enactive philosophy of embodiment: from biological foundations of agency to the phenomenology of subjectivity / Mog Stapleton and Tom Froese
- Radicalizing the phenomenology of basic minds with Levinas and Merleau-Ponty / Matt Bower
- Mind and value / Nathaniel F. Barrett
- Ethics and normativity / John Cottingham.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 1, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 3319305018
- 9783319305011
- OCLC:
- 936532731
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