Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

Link:
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4246

Some books of an interdisciplinary nature are incredibly difficult to
categorize. Thompson's massive 542-page tome Mind in Life is such a
book. On the one hand it is a densely-written account of
phenomenological philosophy, engaging in discussions concerning the
scientific merits of the philosophy of Husserl and Merleau-
Ponty. . . . On the other hand, it is a book on (the philosophy of)
biology, criticizing reductionist approaches in evolutionary biology
(especially the genocentric approaches of Dawkins c.s.), and arguing
for a more holistic developmental systems approach. . . . Finally, the
book is a discussion of developments in the sciences and philosophy of
mind, where Thompson uses the approaches from phenomenology in order
to come to a more holistic view of the relation****p between mind,
body, and world. Link:
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4246

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