Mind in Nature

From Science to Philosophy

Olga Markic, Marko Ursic, Andrej Ule (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2012
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-62081-267-9 (ISBN)

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The main purpose of this book is to investigate, from the philosophical point of view, the concept of mind in some quickly developing fields of contemporary science, from physics and cosmology to biology and cognitive science. New scientific investigations have brought many empirical results that help to explain natural phenomena from quantum states to human thinking, yet the question of the nature of the mind itself is still open. In this book, the authors discuss several philosophical problems raised or reformulated by recent scientific discoveries. The authors use an interdisciplinary and holistic approach that bridges the gap between scientific and humanistic pictures of the mind.

Preface; Introduction; "Fine tuning" & the Anthropic Cosmological Principle; Multiverse(s); Paradoxes of transfinite cosmology; "Intelligent Design" vs. cosmological Darwinism; New ways of solving the "Goldilocks Enigma"; Emergence & emanation; Pantheism as the "third way" of philosophical cosmology; The mechanical picture; Cognition as computation; Mental processes as neural processes; Unresolved issues: mental causation problem & consciousness; Embodied, situated cognition: brain, body & world; Processual aspects of consciousness; Potentiality in nature; Nonprocessual aspects of consciousness; The experiential perspective & the perspectivity dimension of reality; Does quantum mechanics provide a model of experiential consciousness?; Bibliography; Index.

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	260 x 180 mm
Gewicht	666 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
ISBN-10	1-62081-267-3 / 1620812673
ISBN-13	978-1-62081-267-9 / 9781620812679
Zustand	Neuware