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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.
Contents
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
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