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Some may consider that the language and concepts of philosophy will eventually be superseded by those of neuroscience. This book questions such a naïve assumption and through a variety of perspectives and traditions, the authors show the possible contributions of philosophy to non-reductive forms of neuroscientific research. Drawing from the full range and depth of philosophical thought, from hylomorphism to ethics, by way of dynamical systems, enactivism and value theory, amongst other topics, this edited work promotes a rich form of interdisciplinary exchange.

Chaptersexplore the analytic, phenomenological and pragmatic traditions of philosophy, and most share a common basis in the Aristotelian tradition. Contributions address one or more aspects of subjectivity in relation to science, such as the meaning and scope of naturalism and the place of consciousness in nature, or the relation between intentionality, teleology, and causality. Readers may further explore the nature of life and its relation to mind and then the role of value in mind and nature.

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Biology and subjectivity

Garcia-Valdecasas Miguel; Barrett Nathaniel F.

1-12

Self-consciousness, personal identity, and the challenge of neuroscience

Sturma Dieter

13-24

Mind vs. body and other false dilemmas of post-cartesian philosophy of mind

Klima Gyula

25-39

Hylomorphism

Jaworski William

41-61

Remarks on the ontology of living beings and the causality of their behavior

Buchheim Thomas

63-75

Does the principle of causal closure account for natural teleology?

Garcia-Valdecasas Miguel

77-94

Body, time and subject

95-112

The enactive philosophy of embodiment

Stapleton Mog; Froese Tom

113-129

Radicalizing the phenomenology of basic minds with Levinas and Merleau-Ponty

Bower Matt

131-150

Mind and value

Barrett Nathaniel F.

151-180

Ethics and normativity

Cottingham John

181-191