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The Bilateral Mind as the Mirror of Nature - A Metaphilosophy

The Bilateral Mind as the Mirror of Nature - A Metaphilosophy

James Blachowicz

 

Verlag Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

ISBN 9783031144783 , 348 Seiten

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The Bilateral Mind as the Mirror of Nature - A Metaphilosophy


 

This book provides a framework that encompasses both physics and cognitive science - integrating them into a 'theory of everything' to establish a basis for both our scientific and humanistic endeavours.
It explores the implications of brain laterality for understanding the emergence of mind and its relation to the physical world - arguing that the analytic vs. holistic cognitive differences of the left and right human cerebral hemispheres are key to understanding not only human self-consciousness and language, but also sociocultural phenomena ranging from the emergence of the scientific method and axes of political orientation to the direction of development of conceptions of God and the fundamental differences between polarizing philosophical traditions.

In a further step, the book draws on the Darwinian principle that our cognitive apparatus is shaped by the environment in which it evolved to argue that human bilaterality mirrors the fundamental hylomorphic relation between formal organization and material components that constitutes physical nature itself. The logical division between holistic and analytic categories thereby offers a principled basis for a metaphilosophy.


James Blachowicz is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago.