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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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 201; no. 1; pp. 1 - 23
Autor principal: Veit, Walter
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Jan2023
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