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Hegel, Organicism, & Cognitive Science

Posted on February 27th, 2010 in Hegel, physicalism, Cognitive Science, Organicism.

McDonough, Richard. “Hegel’s Organic Account of Mind and Critique of Cognitive Science,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, vol. 19., no. 1, 1996, pp. 67-97.
Emergence or Reduction?: Essays on the Prospects of Nonreductive Physicalism, edited by Ansgar Beckermann, Hans Flohr, Jaegwon Kim. Berlin; New York: W. de Gruyter, 1992.
I’ve had this undeveloped post sitting in limbo […]

Subjectivity & Emergence

Posted on March 28th, 2007 in Ethics, Subjectivity, Consciousness, Activity theory, Fichte, Hegel, Division of labor, Medicine, Neuroscience.

The Subject of Consciousness by Andy Blunden, May 2006
For Blunden, emergence of consciousness from the brain is an insufficient explanatory approach. Instead, an analytical approach should be centered about the concept of the subject, which in philosophy is also designated as subjectivity. This is both a scientific and an ethical approach.
Blunden distinguishes consciousness, which […]