Mind in life : biology, phenomenology, and the sciences of mind / Evan Thompson
- Bib ID:
- 3970898
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Thompson, Evan
- Description:
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- Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap, c2007
- xiv, 543 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780674025110
- 0674025113
- Summary:
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"Evan Thompson draws upon sources as diverse as molecular biology, evolutionary theory, artificial life, complex systems theory, neuroscience, psychology, Continental Phenomenology, and analytic philosophy to argue that mind and life are more continuous than has previously been accepted, and that current explanations do not adequately address the myriad facets of the biology and phenomenology of mind. Where there is life, Thompson argues, there is mind: life and mind share common principles of self-organization, and the self-organizing features of mind are an enriched version of the self-organizing features of life. Rather than trying to close the explanatory gap, Thompson marshals philosophical and scientific analyses to bring unprecedented insight to the nature of life and consciousness. This synthesis of phenomenology and biology helps make Mind in Life a vital addition to his volume The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Pt. 1. The enactive approach
- 1. Cognitive science and human experience
- 2. The phenomenological connection
- 3. Autonomy and emergence
- 4. The structure of behavior
- Pt. 2. Life in mind
- 5. Autopoiesis : the organization of the living
- 6. Life and mind : the philosophy of the organism
- 7. Laying down a path in walking : development and evolution
- Pt. 3. Consciousness in life
- 8. Life beyond the gap
- 9. Sensorimotor subjectivity
- 10. Look again : consciousness and mental imagery
- 11. Temporality and the living present
- 12. Primordial dynamism : emotion and valence
- 13. Empathy and enculturation
- App A. Husserl and cognitive science
- App B. Emergence and the problem of downward causation.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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