MIND IN LIFE: BIOLOGY, PHENOMENOLOGY, AND SCIENCES OF MIND
Harvard University Press, April 2007
Mind in Life
Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
Evan Thompson
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: The Enactive Approach
1. Cognitive Science and Human Experience
2. The Phenomenological Connection
3. Autonomy and Emergence
4. The Structure of Behavior
Part II: Life in Mind
5. Autopoiesis: The Organization of the Living
6. Life and Mind: The Philosophy of the Organism
7. Laying Down a Path in Walking: Development and Evolution
Part III: Consciousness in Life
8. Life Beyond the Gap
9. Sensorimotor Subjectivity
10. Look Again: Consciousness and Mental Imagery
11. Temporality and the Living Present
12. Primordial Dynamism: Emotion and Valence
13. Empathy and Enculturation
Appendix 1: Husserl and Cognitive Science
Appendix 2: Emergence and the Problem of Downward Causation
References
Evan Thompson
Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and Sciences of Mind
