Neo-Existentialism: How to Conceive of the Human Mind After Naturalism's Failure - Couverture rigide

Gabriel, Markus

 
9781509532476: Neo-Existentialism: How to Conceive of the Human Mind After Naturalism's Failure
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ISBN 10 : 1509532471 ISBN 13 : 9781509532476
Editeur : Polity Press, 2018

Synopsis

In this highly original book, Markus Gabriel offers an account of the human self that overcomes the deadlocks inherent in the standard positions of contemporary philosophy of mind. His view, Neo-Existentialism, is thoroughly anti-naturalist in that it repudiates any theory according to which the ensemble of our best natural-scientific knowledge is able to account fully for human mindedness. Instead, he shows that human mindedness consists in an open-ended proliferation of mentalistic vocabularies. Their role in the human life form consists in making sense of the fact that the human being does not merely blend in with inanimate nature and the rest of the animal kingdom. Humans rely on a self-portrait that locates them in the broadest conceivable context of the universe. What distinguishes this self-portrait from our knowledge of natural reality is that we change in light of our true and false beliefs about the human being.

Gabriel's argument is challenged in this volume by Charles Taylor, Andrea Kern and Jocelyn Benoist. In defending his argument against these and other objections and in spelling out his theory of self-constitution, Gabriel refutes naturalism's metaphysical claim to epistemic exclusiveness and opens up new paths for future self-knowledge beyond the contemporary ideology of the scientific worldview.

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À propos de l?auteur

Markus Gabriel was born in 1980 and studied in Heidelberg, Lisbon and New York. Since 2009 he has held the Chair for Epistemology at the University of Bonn and with this appointment he became Germany's youngest philosophy professor. He is also the director of the International Center for Philosophy in Bonn.

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Éditeur
Polity Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1509532471
ISBN 13 
9781509532476
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
140
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Editeur : Polity Press, 2018
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