Overview
- The challenge to phenomenology/philosophy at large, coming from the biological/neurological research, in the resurfacing mind-body controversy is being answered by the phenomenology/ontopoiesis of life in transposing the new issues involved upon the ontopoietic plane of life
- The new notion of "sentience", as the core of the Logos, offers the thread Of Continuity In The Progressive Differentiation Of Life’s functions
Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana (ANHU, volume 93)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Animality and Consciousness
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Front Matter
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Sources of Humanity
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Front Matter
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In Search of Experience
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Front Matter
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Moral Element of Experience
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About this book
Transcendental phenomenology presumed to have overcome the classic mind-body dichotomy in terms of consciousness, yet, according to progress in scientific studies, the biological functions of the brain seem to appropriate significant functions attributed traditionally to consciousness. Should we indeed dissolve the specificity of human consciousness by explaining human experience in its multiple sense-giving modalities through the physiological functions of the brain? The present collection of studies addresses this crucial question challenging such "naturalizing" reductionism from multiple angles. In search for the roots of "The Specifically Human Experience" (Bombala), moving along the line of "Animality and Intellection"(Gosetti-Ferencei), "Naturalistic Attitude and Personalistic Attitude"(Villela-Petit), and numerous other perspectives, we arrive at a novel proposal to explain the scholar functional differentiation of conscious modalities. We reach their source in the ontopoietic thread conducting the Logos of Life in its stepwise "Evolutive Unfolding"(Carmen Cozma), and in "sentience" as its quintessential core of further irreducible continuity (Tymieniecka) dispelling dichotomies and reductionisms.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Phenomenology of Life - From the Animal Soul to the Human Mind
Book Subtitle: Book I. In Search of Experience
Editors: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Series Title: Analecta Husserliana
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5192-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5191-3Published: 09 July 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7305-1Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5192-0Published: 23 August 2007
Series ISSN: 0167-7276
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8330
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLI, 446
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Phenomenology, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of Man, Philosophy of Biology