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1 Introduction: Philosophy, Naturally |
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Toward a Natural(istic) Philosophy to Live By |
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3 | (2) |
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The Structure of Our Argument |
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2 It All Starts with Experience |
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The Importance of Beginnings |
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Experience and Empirical Method |
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15 | (5) |
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The Organism Striving for Viability in Its World |
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20 | (4) |
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Homeostasis and Allostasis in the Maintenance of Life |
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24 | (5) |
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The Experiential Basis of Life Functions |
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29 | (2) |
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3 The Naturalized Metaphysics of Emerging Mind |
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31 | (18) |
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The Need for a Naturalistic Emergent Metaphysics |
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31 | (3) |
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From Inanimate Matter (Plateau 1) to Life (Plateau 2) |
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34 | (3) |
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37 | (4) |
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From Life (Plateau 2) to Mind (Plateau 3) |
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41 | (2) |
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Individuals with Minds versus Individual Mind |
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43 | (6) |
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49 | (26) |
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50 | (3) |
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Embodied Meaning Arising from the Qualitative Unity of a Situation |
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53 | (5) |
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Two Neural Systems Underlying the Pervasive Unifying Qualities |
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58 | (3) |
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Embodied Meaning as Sense and Signification |
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61 | (5) |
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Concepts as Probabilities of Affordances |
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66 | (4) |
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70 | (2) |
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Habit and the Plasticity of Mind |
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72 | (3) |
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5 Consciousness Wakes Up in Mind |
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75 | (24) |
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Consciousness as a Transitional Transformative Process |
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76 | (7) |
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Consciousness and the Making of the Self |
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83 | (3) |
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86 | (3) |
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Extended Consciousness and the Autobiographical Self |
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89 | (3) |
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How Is Consciousness Possible? |
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What Is Consciousness Good for, Anyway? |
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96 | (3) |
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6 Knowing as Transformative Action |
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The Search for Security through Knowledge |
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100 | (2) |
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Knowing as Intelligent Remaking of Experience |
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102 | (4) |
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Nature Is Not Inherently Rational |
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Knowing as Reconstructive Activity |
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107 | (2) |
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Knowing as Need-Search-Satisfaction |
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109 | (5) |
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114 | (7) |
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Damasio's Blending of Self Processes |
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123 | (6) |
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The Narrative Context of the Self |
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129 | (3) |
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Dewey's Self as Interpenetration of Habits |
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132 | (8) |
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Flexible Habits and Growth of the Self |
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140 | (2) |
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142 | (2) |
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Every Self Is a Moral Self |
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144 | (5) |
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8 The Aesthetics of Life and Mind |
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The Devaluation of Aesthetics |
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149 | (9) |
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The Aesthetics of Meaningful Experience |
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158 | (2) |
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Experience and the Growth of Meaning via the Means-Consequences Relation |
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160 | (5) |
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The Common Currency of Aesthetic Sensibility |
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165 | (6) |
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Aesthetic Sensibilities in the Experience of Art |
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171 | (5) |
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Thought and Science as Art |
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176 | (5) |
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181 | (26) |
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Philosophy Impoverished and Philosophy Revitalized |
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181 | (5) |
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186 | (2) |
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Philosophy as Criticism of Criticisms |
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188 | (7) |
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Metaphysics as the Ground-Map of Experiences |
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195 | (5) |
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200 | (7) |
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10 Living with Naturalism |
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207 | (28) |
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208 | (6) |
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214 | (6) |
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220 | (7) |
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227 | (8) |
| Appendix |
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235 | (2) |
| References |
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237 | (26) |
| Index |
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