Dear all,
The lecture, titled The Brain as a Philosophical Problem: Embodied Anthropology in Thomas Fuchs’ Brain—A Relational Organ , will be held at 18:00 on Tuesday, May 26, Room 302 of ShanghaiTech University Library. Please find below the abstract and a brief introduction to the speaker.
Abstract:Professor Thomas Fuchs of Heidelberg University, Germany, identifies in his magnum opus The Brain - A Mediating Organ the philosophical presuppositions and a cerebro-centric image of human being behind mainstream neuroscience. Drawing extensively on cutting-edge research from phenomenology of body, embodied cognition, ecological biology and neuroscience, he constructs an embodied anthropology centered on the living and lived body.
As a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding human brain functions, embodied anthropology also seeks to bridge the gap between contemporary humanities and natural sciences, and address the challenges the contemporary scientism poses to human nature.
Speaker:Wang Xu, PhD from Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany; Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on phenomenology and inter-cultural philosophy.