La philosophie de la vie de Hans Jonas à la rencontre du darwinisme neuronal de Gerald Edelman
(2012)
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- Frogneux , Nathalie
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- (en) Since the impasse of Cartesian psychophysical dualism, attempted solutions related to the Mind-Body Problem have been having the tendency to close up into the materialistic physicalist approach that structures the method of natural science. If this scientific method seems to be rightful concerning the fact of the victory of the materialistic monism over its idealistic counterpart, similarly, the living, by its biological nature and its inwardness, does not correspond any more to the reductionism vision of the physical laws that determine the principle of sciences in the same way. Against this implicit metaphysics in the philosophy of mind, which tends to proceed to a spatial and material relief of mind, as it is emerging in the science, Hans Jonas in philosophy and Gerald M. Edelman in neurosciences direct against the stream and propose a naturalistic non-physicalist reading of living. Their approach defends not only a part of indeterminateness in the physical-chemical mental processes but also the free will which crystallizes the freedom in the heart of a living. Thus the mind appears as both a descriptive category of living and as a result of the self-organization of the matter. Admittedly, this connection between the neurosciences and the philosophy is singular and unique. Nevertheless, it allows to clarify the richness of the neurosciences contribution in the contemporary ethical debate and at the same occasion it inquires anew into the ethics of a living according to Jonas whose relevance is renewed immune to problems arising from its metaphysical foundation.
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Hounnou, K. M. (2012). La philosophie de la vie de Hans Jonas à la rencontre du darwinisme neuronal de Gerald Edelman. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/158273