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Spinoza and Contemporary Biology - Henri Atlan

Spinoza and Contemporary Biology

Lectures on the Philosophy of Biology and Cognitivism

(Autor)

Robert Boncardo (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
568 Seiten
2026
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-8901-0 (ISBN)
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A neo-Spinozian conception of life and the mind.
Published in France in 2018, Henri Atlan’s book Cours de philosophie biologique et cognitiviste: Spinoza et la biologie actuelle (Odile Jacob, 2018) represents a turning point in Spinoza’s interpretations of contemporary life sciences. Henri Atlan is the first in this field of research, of applied epistemology and ontology, to effectively address contemporary questions in biology and cognitive sciences. Atlan presents us with a genuine understanding of Spinoza’s monism, which is neither materialistic nor idealistic, and with an expertise in contemporary life sciences that will open an entire new field of research in Spinoza scholarship as well as in philosophy of sciences. Readers will better understand the connection between Spinoza’s Ethics, his ontology and epistemology, and modern life sciences, allowing us to rethink the relationship between ethics and modern sciences.

Henri Atlan is Professor Emeritus of Biophysics at the Universities of Paris VI and Jerusalem and Honorary Director of Research in Philosophy of Biology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Robert Boncardo is Sessional Tutor in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at Australian Catholic University. He completed his doctorate in French Studies at the University of Sydney and Aix-Marseille Université. Inja Stracenski is Co-ordinator and Lecturer in the School of Jewish Theology at The University of Potsdam

Preface by Pierre Macherey

Foreword

Introduction: Why Spinoza?

Part I: The Intelligible and the Sensible: The Relevance of Spinoza's Doctrine

Chapter 1. The Order of Philosophizing: Nature

Chapter 2. From a Biophysics of the Individual to the Nature of the Human Mind

Chapter 3. Matter and Thought: Identity and Differences

Chapter 4. The Unfinished

Part II: Psychophysical Causations

Chapter 5. Ideas and Things

Chapter 6. The Body Cannot Determine the Mind to Think (Ethics III, 2, First Move)

Chapter 7. Detour Through Cognitive Neurosciences

Chapter 8. Causes, Correlations, Information, Neuronal Codes

Chapter 9. Unconscious Consciousness. From the Inadequate to the Adequate

Chapter 10. Methods of Research and Metaphysical Temptations

Chapter 11. The "Whole of Nature" Under Each Attribute

Chapter 12. Emergence and Supervenience: Anomalous Monism and Synthetic Identity

Conclusion

Appendix: The conatus

Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.5.2026
Reihe/Serie Spinoza Studies
Übersetzer Inja Stracenski
Vorwort Pierre Macherey
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-4744-8901-X / 147448901X
ISBN-13 978-1-4744-8901-0 / 9781474489010
Zustand Neuware
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