World-leading anthropologists and philosophers pursue the perplexing question fundamental to both disciplines: What is it to think of ourselves as human? A common theme is the open-ended and context-dependent nature of our notion of the human, one upshot of which is that perplexities over that notion can only be dealt with in a piecemeal fashion, and in relation to concrete real-life circumstances. Philosophical anthropology, understood as the exploration of such perplexities, will thus be both recognizably philosophical in character and inextricably bound up with anthropological fieldwork. The volume is put together accordingly: Precisely by mixing ostensibly philosophical papers with papers that engage in close anthropological study of concrete issues, it is meant to reflect the vital tie between these two aspects of the overall philosophical-anthropological enterprise. The collection will be of great interest to philosophers and anthropologists alike, and essential reading for anyone interested in the interconnections between the two disciplines.

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Publisher

De Gruyter

Year

2017

eBook ISBN

9783110523430

Edition

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Epistemology in Philosophy

Index of Subjects

action 1, 2 f., 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
activity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6f., 7, 8, 9f., 10, 11, 12 f., 13, 14, 15, 16
affect 1f., 2, 3, 4, 5 f., 6, 7f., 8, 9
– affect theory 1, 2f., 3, 4f., 5 f.
agency 1, 2f., 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8f., 9, 10, 11, 12f.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) 1, 2
Amyloid cascade hypothesis 1f., 2 f., 3, 4
Amyloid plaque 1, 2, 3, 4
anatomical picture 1, 2, 3
animism 1, 2
anthropocene 1
anthropology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10f., 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
a priori 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
asceticism 1, 2
assemblage 1, 2f., 3, 4
attention 1, 2 f., 3f., 4, 5, 6, 7f., 8, 9 f., 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 f., 16 f., 17, 18, 19
autonomy 1f., 2, 3, 4 f., 5, 6, 7
biomarker 1, 2, 3
bioscience 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
body 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9f., 10f., 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
brain 1f., 2, 3f., 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 f., 9, 10, 11, 12
Brazil 1842
Calvinist reformation 1, 2
Cartesian 1, 2f., 3, 4, 5
category 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
causation 1, 2, 3
China 1, 2
commodification 1
configuration 1, 2, 3, 4
consciousness 1, 2f., 3f., 4, 5, 6f., 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
context 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 f., 6, 7f., 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13f., 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
convention 1, 2, 3, 4
corporeal 1f., 2, 3, 4
– corporeality 1, 2 f.
cosmology 1, 2
creativity 1, 2, 3f., 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
cyborg 1, 2
degenerate case 1 f., 2
dementia 1, 2 f., 3, 4
democracy 1, 2
description 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 f., 9, 10, 11, 12 f., 13, 14
determinism 1, 2
dual 1, 2
– dualism 1
education 1, 2, 3, 4f., 5, 6, 7f.
eliminativism 1
embodiment 1, 2f., 3, 4f., 5f., 6, 7
emotion 1, 2, 3, 4
enhancement 1
Enlightenment 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 f.
environment 1 f., 2, 3, 4f., 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
epistemology 1, 2
– epistemological 1 f., 2f., 3, 4
essence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
essentialism 1, 2f., 3, 4, 5, 6, 7f., 8
ethics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
– ethical 1 f., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
ethnography 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
evolution 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7f., 8, 9
existence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12f., 13f., 14, 15,...

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Table of Contents
Introduction
To Human Is a Verb
Approaching Philosophical Anthropology: Human, the Responsive Being
Situated Agency: A Postfoundational Alternative to Autonomy
Notes on Life and Human Nature
Ethnography, History and Philosophy of Experimental Psychology
A Degenerate Case of Action
The Alzheimer Enigma in an Ageing World
Individuality, Identity and Supplementarity in Transcorporeal Embodiment
The Loneliness of the Liberal Individual
The Dual Nature of the Modern Individual
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

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