Health, consciousness, and the evolution of subjects

The goal of this programmatic paper is to highlight a close connection between the core problem in the philosophy of medicine, i.e. the concept of health, and the core problem of the philosophy of mind, i.e. the concept of consciousness. I show when we look at these phenomena together, taking the ev...

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Published inSynthese (Dordrecht) Vol. 201; no. 1; p. 3
Main Author Veit, Walter
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.01.2023
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Consciousness
Education
Epistemology
Health
Logic
Medical philosophy
Medicine
Metaphysics
Original Research
Philosophy
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of Science
Pathological complexity
Organisms
Consciousness
Health
Darwinism
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Summary:The goal of this programmatic paper is to highlight a close connection between the core problem in the philosophy of medicine, i.e. the concept of health, and the core problem of the philosophy of mind, i.e. the concept of consciousness. I show when we look at these phenomena together, taking the evolutionary perspective of modern state-based behavioural and life-history theory used as the teleonomic tool to Darwinize the agent- and subject-side of organisms, we will be in a better position to make sense of them both as natural phenomena.
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ISSN:1573-0964
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DOI:10.1007/s11229-022-03998-z