Life-mind continuity

Untangling categorical, extensional, and systematic aspects

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10808232
AutoresSebastian Sander Oest (0009-0004-2174-476X, University of Oslo, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume203
Fascículo6
Data de publicação2024-05-31
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSynthese (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0039-7857 • E-ISSN: 1573-0964
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11229-024-04645-5
OpenAlexW4399224122
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas57

In this paper, I argue that current attempts at classifying life–mind continuity (LMC) feature several important ambiguities. We can resolve these ambiguities by distinguishing between the extensional, categorical, and systematic relationships that LMC might encompass. In Sect. 1, I begin by introducing the notion of LMC and the theory behind it. In Sect. 2, I show how different ideas of mind shape different approaches to continuity and how to achieve its aim. In Sect. 3, I canvas various canonical formulations and classifications of LMC; I then demonstrate that they retain important ambiguities. Section 4 builds on this by arguing that we must conceive of the extensional and categorical aspects of continuity independently. In Sect. 5, I show further that current literature has underexplored multiple systematic aspects of continuity. I then take a constructive approach in Sect. 6 by providing a classification model for LMC based on extensional and categorical commitments. Here, I comment on aspects of the thesis omitted from the model but essential for a full classification and thorough comparison between various approaches to LMC. All of these arguments lay the foundation for more exhaustively classifying accounts of LMC

Categorical variable · Epistemology · Extensional definition · Metaphysics · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of mind · Philosophy of science · Statistics · Cognitive Science and Mapping · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Geology · Mathematics · Paleontology · Philosophy