Fuchs, Thomas, 1958-

Ecology of the brain : the phenomenology and biology of the embodied mind / Thomas Fuchs, Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophical Foundations of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Clinic, University of Heidelberg, Germany. - First edition. - xxi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-324) and index.

Introduction -- Part 1. Criticism of neurobiological reductionism. Cosmos in the head? -- The brain as the subject's heir? -- Part 2. Body, person, and the brain. Foundations : subjectivity and life -- The brain as an organ of the living being -- The brain as an organ of the person -- The concept of dual aspectivity -- Implications for psychiatry and psychological medicine -- Conclusion.


Translated from the German

9780199646883 (hbk.) 0199646880 (hbk.)

99976622786

2017955391


Brain--Philosophy.
Brain--Physiology.

QP376 / .F7413 2018

612.82