
Aconceptual Mind : Heideggerian themes in holistic naturalism.
Title:
Aconceptual Mind : Heideggerian themes in holistic naturalism.
Author:
Pylkkö, Pauli.
ISBN:
9789027283481
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (323 pages)
Series:
Advances in Consciousness Research
Contents:
THE ACONCEPTUAL MIND -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- PREFACE Heidegger with a grain of salt -- CHAPTER ONE. Dasein naturalized -- Naturalization to the rescue -- From Angst to Furcht -- Aconceptual experience -- Experiential relativism -- Tolerance and dominance -- CHAPTER TWO. Is modern science necessarily onto- theo-logical? -- The difference between Sein and Seiende -- The parallel question: Is nondogmatic philosophical naturalism possible? -- The circularity of external naturalism -- Nondogmatic naturalism -- Standard science is trivially onto-theo-logical -- Mechanicalness -- Prediscursiveness and pre-empiricalness -- Reification -- Nature and naturalism in Being and Time -- Heidegger and atomic physics -- Identity with Parmenides and Leibniz -- Sameness in quantum phenomena -- How to speak of quantum phenomena? -- Has the forgetfulness of Being poisoned Western culture? -- Conclusion: Answer to the title's question -- CHAPTER THREE. What is noncomputational in recent consciousness studies? -- Back to experience -- Search for a noncomputational view of mind -- Penrose and the noncomputational -- Theintellectualist fallacy -- Globus and the noncomputational -- Does Globus really question the metaphysics of subjectivity? -- How to take Heidegger seriously in neuroscience -- Inseparability, indeterminacy and experience -- Freedom as randomness -- Subjectivity as the domesticated region of experience -- Are all preconditions of the scientific attitude scientifically accessible? -- CHAPTER FOUR. On surprise -- The gap -- 'Surprise me!' -- Subjects: growing perspectivity and hierarchy -- A brief history of surprise -- Experience and modern semiotics -- Mechanical, nonmechanical, amechanical -- Nietzsche's Wille -- Change, and meaning change -- Naturalism, holism, associationism.
Language experience, surprise and their neural description -- CHAPTER FIVE. Unique language problem -- How to destroy theoretical dichotomies -- An atheoretical view of language -- How innocent is ordinary language? -- Unique, but not necessarily private -- Experiential repetition and interpretative interaction -- Games and the emergence of subjects -- Language as aconceptual experience -- Naming indeterminacies -- Experience and neural association -- Nationality as asubjective experience -- CHAPTER SIX. Gaming without subjects -- Gaming, hunting, and philosophizing -- A glimpse at the history of asubjectivism -- Power, democracy, technology -- The dangers of asubjective views of the mind -- Between naiveté and nihilism -- Surrogate subjects in holistic naturalism -- From connectionism to aconceptual neural naturalism -- Gaming and reification -- Subjects disintegrated -- Gaming against metaphysics -- The terror of goodness -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Is Nazism humanism? -- Overview of the problem -- A glimpse at the literature of the Heidegger controversy -- Nazism as aconceptual experience -- Nazism and anti-Semitism -- Hitler as a man without essential subjectivity -- National Socialism as a cultural rescue movement -- Nazism as Expressionism in politics -- The rational, irrational and arational in Nazism -- The Weimar culture and the temptations of the Unreason -- Hans Heyse's antihumanistic existentialism -- LudwigKlages's antilogocentrism -- Alfred Bäumler's asubjectivism -- Franz Böhm's German Geophilosophy -- Was Nazism onto-typological? -- Derrida and the deconstruction of quotation marks -- Heidegger and the temptations of the Nazi antihumanism -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Nationally unique meanings -- Ollaan -- Untranslatable uniqueness -- Neural indeterminacy -- Kokea and the limits of conceptual thinking -- Finnish as aconceptual experience.
Philosophical nationality -- Is it possible to think about philosophical problems in Finnish? -- References -- Name Index.
Abstract:
According to Heidegger, naturalistic thinking is naive and unable to deal with its own essence and limitations. It can only serve the veiled interests of modern Western technology in its inherent inclination to attain global dominance. But these eight thematically intertwined essays face Heidegger's critique of naturalistic thinking habits. The author develops a holistic and antirealistic version of naturalism. This 'holistic naturalism' does not approach nature as a set of entities or things which can be used for technological purposes. Instead, nature is approached as human experience which originally lacks conceptual structure and which can therefore not be fully controlled by a rational subject. (Series A).
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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