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This synthesis of phenomenology and biology helps make Mind in Life a vital and long-awaited addition to his landmark volume The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (coauthored with Eleanor Rosch and Francisco Varela).
This synthesis of phenomenology and biology helps make Mind in Life a vital and long-awaited addition to his landmark volume The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (coauthored with Eleanor Rosch and Francisco Varela).
Mind in life can be discussed well enough, biologically, without the emphasis Thompson provides with his phenomenological perspective. Jul 08, 2017 Alina W. rated it it was amazing. This book does a fantastic job at dissolving mind-body dualism in a way that is not only philosophically satisfying, but also scientifically so.
The mind adapts to what is mysterious in nature and in so doing trivializes it. Not because the phenomenon itself . Not because the phenomenon itself is trivial, but because our. mind repeatedly fails to comprehend it and it therefore becomes an irritant around which we build an eschar to wall it off from our conscious thought processes.
Biology, phenomenology, and the sciences of mind
Biology, phenomenology, and the sciences of mind. The belknap press of harvard university press. Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England. COGNITIVE SCIENCE-that part of the science of the mind tradition-ally concerned with cognitive processes-has been described as having a very long past but a relatively short history (Gardner 1985, p. 9). Scientic concern with the mind can be traced all the way back to Plato and Aristotle, but the term cognitive science did not arise until the late twentieth century
Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind.
Biology, phenomenology, and the sciences of mind. The penultimate version of this book served as the main text for a graduate seminar in Phenomenological Philosophy of Mind I taught during the Fall Term 2005, in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. I am grateful to everyone who attended that seminarespecially Ranpal Dosanjh, David Egan, Cathal Madagin, Joshua Ben Nichols, Adrienne Prettyman, and Joel Walmsleyfor their critical responses to the text.
Précis of Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind Introduction The theme of this book is the deep continuity of life and mind. Where there is life there is mind, and mind in its most articulated forms belongs to life. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 18, No. 5–6, 2011, pp. ?–? 2. E. THOMPSON. and the intentionality of consciousness.
This is a large book, and large books have to justify themselves more than short ones
This is a large book, and large books have to justify themselves more than short ones. Although there are times when I think Evan Thompson could be more succinct, the length of the book is justified owing to the need for the ambitious project the book undertakes to be properly and convincingly realized. Overall, the book is a tremendous success and amounts to a superior contribution to recent and current debates in the philosophy of mind.
In Mind in Life Evan Thompson aims to assemble a framework for cognitive science that will begin to harmonize biology and phenomenology so as to help close the notorious "explanatory gap" between consciousness and nature
In Mind in Life Evan Thompson aims to assemble a framework for cognitive science that will begin to harmonize biology and phenomenology so as to help close the notorious "explanatory gap" between consciousness and nature. Thompson does not claim to close this gap completely, but to "enrich the philosophical and scientific resources we have for addressing" it (p. x). It may not yet be easy to tell how much headway has been made on the problem of the gap.
How is life related to the mind? The question has long confounded philosophers and scientists, and it is this so-called explanatory gap between biological life and consciousness that Evan Thompson explores in Mind in Life.
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 and long-awaited addition to his landmark volume The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (coauthored with Eleanor Rosch and Francisco Varela).
Endlessly interesting and accessible, Mind in Life is a groundbreaking addition to the fields of the theory of the mind, life science, and phenomenology.
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