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Unity of Body and Soul or Mind-Brain-Being?

Towards a Paradigm Shift in Modern Concepts of Personhood

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  1. Marcus Knaup

    1. Fern Universität in Hagen, Hagen, Deutschland

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  • New Philosophical Insights to the Body-Soul Debate
  • Discussion of the Most Relevant Approaches and Arguments in the Field
  • Bridge between the Anglophone and the Continental Discussion

Part of the book series: Abhandlungen zur Philosophie (ABPHIL)

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Table of contents (1 chapter)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  3. Back Matter

    Pages 409-442
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About this book

The relationship between our living body and our soul, our mental expressions of life and our physical environment, are both classical topics for discussion and ones which currently present themselves as part of a truly exciting philosophical debate: are we today still able to speak of a “soul”? And what is meant by a (living) body (German: “Leib”)? Does our brain dictate what we will and do? Or do we have free will? Why are we the same people tomorrow that we were yesterday? Given the discoveries of the modern neural sciences, can human beings still be understood in the context of the unity of body and soul? Or should we rather define ourselves as mind-brain beings (German: Gehirn-Geist-Gestalten)?


Marcus Knaup explores these questions and discusses the most relevant approaches and arguments concerning the (living) body-soul debate. His own approach to current chal-lenges presented by modern brain research emanates from his bringing together AristotelianHylomorphism and phenomenology of the living body (German: “Leibphänomenologie”).
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Fern Universität in Hagen, Hagen, Deutschland

    Marcus Knaup

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Dr. Marcus Knaup is researcher at the FernUniverität Hagen in Germany.
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  • Book Title: Unity of Body and Soul or Mind-Brain-Being?

  • Book Subtitle: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Modern Concepts of Personhood

  • Authors: Marcus Knaup

  • Series Title: Abhandlungen zur Philosophie

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04718-2

  • Publisher: J.B. Metzler Stuttgart

  • eBook Packages: J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-476-04717-5Published: 29 November 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-476-04718-2Published: 21 November 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2945-9923

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-9931

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 442

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Philosophy of Mind

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