Ecology of the Brain : The phenomenology and biology of the embodied mind Paperback / softback
by Thomas (Psychiatric Clinic, University of Heidelberg, Psychiatric Clinic, University of Heide Fuchs
Part of the International Perspectives In Philosophy & Psychiatry series
Paperback / softback
Description
Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study.
But what if researchers viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ?
Ecology of the Brain addresses this very question. It considers the human body as a collective, a living being which uses the brain to mediate interactions.
Those interactions may be both within the human body and between the human body and its environment.
Within this framework, the mind is seen not as a product of the brain but as an activity of the living being; an activity which integrates the brain within the everyday functions of the human body.
Going further, Fuchs reformulates the traditional mind-brain problem, presenting it as a dual aspect of the living being: the lived body and the subjective body - the living body and the objective body.
The processes of living and experiencing life, Fuchs argues, are in fact inextricably linked; it is not the brain, but the human being who feels, thinks and acts.
For students and academics, Ecology of the Brain will be of interest to those studying or researching theory of mind, social and cultural interaction, psychiatry, and psychotherapy.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:14/12/2017
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- ISBN:9780199646883
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:14/12/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199646883
