Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Phillip Honenberger

   Pages 1-26

3. In Pursuit of Something ‘Essential’ about Man: Heidegger and Philosophical Anthropology

   • Beth Cykowski

   Pages 27-48

4. Gehlen, Nietzsche, and the Project of a Philosophical Anthropology

   • Richard Schacht

   Pages 49-65

5. Hans Blumenberg: Philosophical Anthropology and the Ethics of Consolation

   • Vida Pavesich

   Pages 66-93

6. Naturalism, Pluralism, and the Human Place in the Worlds

   • Phillip Honenberger

   Pages 94-120

7. Plessner’s Conceptual Investigations of ‘Life’: Structural Narratology

   • Scott Davis

   Pages 121-146

8. Gehlen’s Philosophical Anthropology: Contemporary Applications in Addiction Research

   • Sally Wasmuth

   Pages 147-170

9. The Hybrid Hominin: A Renewed Point of Departure for Philosophical Anthropology

   • Lenny Moss

   Pages 171-182

10. Intentionality and Mentality as Explanans and as Explanandum: Michael Tomasello’s Research Program from the Perspective of Philosophical Anthropology

    • Hans-Peter Krüger

    Pages 183-218

11. Biology and Culture

    • Joseph Margolis

    Pages 219-228

12. The Mortal Self: Toward a Transcendental-Pragmatic Anthropology

    • Sami Pihlström

    Pages 229-252

13. Back Matter

    Pages 253-258

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What is a human being? Philosophical anthropology has approached this question with unusual sophistication, experimentalism, and subtlety. This volume explores the philosophical anthropologies of Scheler, Gehlen, Plessner, and Blumenberg in terms of their relevance to contemporary theories of nature, naturalism, organic life, and human affairs.

• anthropology
• biology
• concept
• ethics
• Martin Heidegger
• Max Scheler

“The essays in this volume provide an exciting contribution to the search for an alternative to reductionist forms of naturalism that ignore the intentional-normative stratum, assisting philosophers and natural scientists to make use of and orient themselves to the dynamic tradition of philosophical anthropology.” (Andrew Cooper, Phenomenological Reviews, reviews.ophen.org, April, 2016)

• Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, USA

  Phillip Honenberger

Beth Cykowski, University of Oxford, UK Scott Davis, Shandong University, China Phillip Honenberger, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, US Hans-Peter Krüger, University of Potsdam, Germany Joseph Margolis, Temple University, US Lenny Moss, University of Exeter, UK Vida Pavesich, California State University East Bay and Diablo Valley College, US Sami Pihlström, University of Helsinki, Finland Richard Schacht, University of Illinois, US Sally Wasmuth, Indiana University, US

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