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Aristotle's Biology
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Aristotle’s Biology
Author_Joseph S. Catalano
Bird's Eye
Bird’s Eye
body
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chronicles
cognitive science theory
Dalton Chemistry
earth
embodied cognition
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Family Idiot
fleshy
Fleshy Body
Fleshy Organic
Folk Psychology
holistic view of human thought
Interior Life
internal
Jean Paul Sartre
materialist ontology
Matter Form Distinction
Nonreductive Materialism
organic
organic consciousness studies
Paul Churchland
phenomenological analysis
Philosophical Issues
philosophy of mind
Plato's World
Plato’s World
Practical Abstraction
Pure Enquiry
Putnam's Internal Realism
Putnam's Twin Earth
putnams
Putnam’s Internal Realism
Putnam’s Twin Earth
realism
Respondence Theory
Robert Stoothoff
Sartre
Sartrean Ethics
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Twin Earth
Twin Earth Chronicles
Product details
- ISBN 9780415926652
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 May 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Thinking Matter is an original and provocative look at the nature of consciousness. While many contemporary philosophers have downplayed the significance of the body and subscribed to a brain/body dualism in human consciousness, Joseph S. Catalano argues that it is the entire fleshy body that thinks; the body of the dancer, the hands of the writer, and the eyes of the reader are not merely instruments of thought, but forms of thought itself. Calling for a thorough rethinking of philosophic traditions from Aristotle to Sartre, Catalano offers a holistic view of the bodily nature of consciousness--one that focuses on the total organic body rather than the brain alone.
Joseph S. Catalano is an internationally recognized Sartre scholar and Professor Emeritus at Kean University of at Kean University of New Jersey. He is the author of classic commentaries on Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique ofDialectical Reason and Being and Nothingness, and of GoodFaith and Other Essays (1996).
